Aran Islands
The Aran Islands are three islands in County Galway in the west of Ireland. They have stark treeless scenery of barren limestone which makes the green of their fields and heathland shine all the brighter.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Inis Mór and Inis Meáin.
Inis Mór
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Inis Mór is the largest of the Aran Islands of County Galway, off the west coast of Ireland. The name simply means "big island" and there are half-a-dozen such places in Ireland, but this one is by far the largest of that name, with a population of 820 in 2022.
Inis Meáin
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Inis Meáin or Inishmaan is the middle island of the three Aran Islands of County Galway in the west of Ireland. It's about 5 km by 3 km with a population in 2022 of 184, whose primary language is Irish.
Inis Oírr
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Inis Óirr or Inisheer is the smallest and most easterly of the Aran Islands of County Galway in the west of Ireland. It's only 10 km from the Cliffs of Moher on the mainland coast of County Clare, and is formed of the same bare limestone as the Burren.
Aran Islands
- Type: Island
- Description: group of three islands on the west coast of Ireland
- Also known as: “Arans”, “South Aran”, and “The Arans”
- Categories: island group and archipelago
- Location: County Galway, Connacht, West Ireland, Ireland, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Aran Islands” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Aran-eilande”
- Asturian: “Islles Aran”
- Basque: “Aran uharte”
- Basque: “Aran uharteak”
- Basque: “Árann uharteak”
- Basque: “Oileáin Árann”
- Belarusian: “Аран”
- Belarusian: “Архіпелаг Аран”
- Breton: “Inizi Árainn”
- Breton: “Inizi Aran”
- Catalan: “illes Aran”
- Catalan: “Illes Aran”
- Cebuano: “Aran Islands”
- Chinese: “亞倫群島”
- Chinese: “亞蘭群島”
- Chinese: “阿伦群岛”
- Chinese: “阿倫群島”
- Czech: “Aranské ostrovy”
- Danish: “Aranøerne”
- Dutch: “Aran Eilanden”
- Dutch: “Aran Islands”
- Dutch: “Aran-eilanden”
- Dutch: “Araneilanden”
- Esperanto: “Insuloj Aran”
- Estonian: “Arani saared”
- Estonian: “Oileáin Árann”
- Finnish: “Aran-saaret”
- Finnish: “Aran”
- Finnish: “Aransaaret”
- Finnish: “Oileáin Árann”
- French: “Iles d’Aran”
- French: “îles d’Aran”
- French: “Îles d’Aran”
- Galician: “Illas de Aran”
- Galician: “Oileáin Árann”
- German: “Aran Islands”
- German: “Aran-Inseln”
- German: “Araninseln”
- German: “Oileáin Árainn”
- German: “Oileain Arann”
- German: “Oileáin Árann”
- German: “Oileain Ariann”
- Hebrew: “איי אראן”
- Hungarian: “Aran-szigetek”
- Indonesian: “Kepulauan Aran”
- Irish: “Árainn”
- Irish: “Oileáin Árainn”
- Irish: “Oileáin Árann”
- Italian: “Isole Aran”
- Japanese: “アラン諸島”
- Korean: “아란 제도”
- Korean: “애런 제도”
- Latin: “Aranae insulae”
- Lithuanian: “Arano salos”
- Low German: “Aran-Eilannen”
- Malayalam: “Aran Islands”
- Malayalam: “അരാൻ ദ്വീപുകൾ”
- Maltese: “Gżejjer Aran”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Aran øyene”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Aranøyene”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Aran Islands”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Aranøyane”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Oileáin Árann”
- Norwegian: “Aranøyene”
- Ossetian: “Аран”
- Ossetian: “Араны сакъадæхтæ”
- Persian: “جزایر آران”
- Polish: “Wyspy Aran”
- Portuguese: “Ilhas de Aran”
- Portuguese: “Inisheer”
- Portuguese: “Inishmaan”
- Portuguese: “Inishmore”
- Russian: “Аран”
- Russian: “Аранские острова”
- Russian: “Арранские острова”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Eileanan Árann”
- Slovak: “Aranské ostrovy”
- Slovenian: “Aranski otoki”
- Spanish: “Aran Islands”
- Spanish: “Aran”
- Spanish: “islas Aran”
- Spanish: “Islas Aran”
- Spanish: “Islas de Aran”
- Swedish: “Aran Islands”
- Swedish: “Aranöarna”
- Thai: “หมู่เกาะแอรัน”
- Turkish: “Aran Adaları”
- Ukrainian: “Аранські острови”
- Vietnamese: “Quần đảo Aran”
- Welsh: “Ynysoedd Arainn”
- Welsh: “Ynysoedd Aran”
- Welsh: “Ynysoedd Arann”
- Western Frisian: “Araneilannen”
- Yue Chinese: “亞蘭群島”
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