Arranmore
Árainn Mhór or Arranmore is an island 5 km off the west coast of County Donegal. It's a Gaeltacht community where Irish is the official language though English is universally understood.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Island
- Description: island in Ireland
- Also known as: “Aran Island” and “Arranmor”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Ballagh Rocks Lighthouse and Aranmore Lighthouse.
Arranmore Lifeboat Station
Building
Arranmore Lifeboat Station is at Poolawaddy, a hamlet on the eastern coast of Arranmore Island, approximately 2 miles north of Leabgarrow, the islands largest settlement.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Leabgarrow and Burtonport.
Leabgarrow
Village
Photo: Joseph Mischyshyn, CC BY-SA 2.0.
An Leadhb Gharbh is a Gaeltacht village on Arranmore Island, which is to the west of County Donegal about three miles from Burtonport. The island's post office, secondary school and ferry port are located in Leabgarrow.
Burtonport
Village
Photo: MaxPride, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Ailt an Chorráin or Ailt a' Chorráin is a Gaeltacht fishing village about 7 km northwest of Dungloe in The Rosses district of County Donegal, Ireland. The main employers in the village were the Burtonport Fishermen's Co-op and the Bord Iascaigh Mhara ice plant; but these have both since closed and their former premises were demolished in 2021 as part of a seafront environment upgrade scheme.
Arranmore
- Category: landform
- Location: County Donegal, Ulster, Northwest Ireland and Lakelands, Ireland, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Swedish—“Arranmore” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Árainn Mhór”
- Basque: “Arranmore”
- Breton: “Arainn Mhor”
- Breton: “Árainn Mhór”
- Breton: “Arranmore”
- Catalan: “Árainn Mhór”
- Cebuano: “Aran Island”
- Chinese: “阿伦摩尔”
- Chinese: “阿伦莫尔岛”
- Czech: “Arranmore”
- Dutch: “Arranmore”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ارانمور”
- Estonian: “Árainn Mhór”
- Estonian: “Arranmore”
- Finnish: “Arranmore”
- French: “Arranmore”
- German: “Árainn Mhór”
- Irish: “Árainn Mhór”
- Italian: “Árainn Mhór”
- Italian: “Arranmore”
- Japanese: “アランモア島”
- Manx: “Aran Vooar”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Arranmore”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Árainn Mhór”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Arranmore”
- Norwegian: “Arranmore”
- Russian: “Арранмор”
- Spanish: “Arranmore”
- Swedish: “Arranmore”
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