Welcome to Inishmor
Inishmor is one of the biggest and hilliest islands on the West Coast of Ireland. 15 km long, 5 km at its widest point.

Upon arrival at Inishmor you’’ll see lots of mini-buses of all shapes and sizes and colour. This is one of the most popular ways of seeing the island (because of its size). These mini Buses taxi all over the island, stopping at various sites including a long stop at Kilmurvey village. Here you can see the famous fort of Dun Aengus, the craft village, and eat at one of the restaurants.

Tour Highlights
1. Kilmurvey Village, Restaurants, information, and shopping. Our first stop (10 minutes)
2. Dun Aonghasa, 2500 year old fort standing on 300 feet cliffs
3. Na Seacht d’Teampaill, The seven churches. Ruin of an eccesiastical study centre 7-8th Century
4. Maggie Danin Cottage, Thatch cottage in the smallest village on the island
5. Man of Aran Cottage, original setting for Robert Flaherty 1930’s film ‘Man of Aran’
6. Seal colony, On a lucky day you’ll see the Aran islands only seal colony

The Aran Islands
are situated thirty miles from Galway City and 7 nautical miles for the Connemara coastline, and are easily accessed by boat from Rossaveal and Doolin and from Inverin by air.

The islands are made up of carboniferous lime stone - and would have been the seabed south of the equator some 350 million years ago, evidence of this can still be seen today in the form of fossilized shellfish, seaweeds, fish and birch pods.

Another main feature of the islands are the millions of granite boulders which dot the landscape,  mullan eibher in Irish. This granite is from the Connemara mountains, which in the dawn of time were 2 to 3 times higher, but as a result of glacial movement they were left behind when the ice sheets receded.

There is a local explanation; that once there lived 2 giants, one in the north and one in the south. Now, both giants despised one another and occasionally threw boulders at each other and that s how they got here,

But Aran wasn t always an island, we were once connected to the mainland, to the Burren in Co. Clare and Golam Head in Connemara. Local tradition tells of the islands splitting on a St. Patrick s Day. Indeed they will split again, at the Gleann Mór near Cill Rónáin and at the Súnda Caoch near Dún Aengus. Galway Bay was once a large inshore lake whose name survives to this day, and was known as  Loch Lurgan. Indeed, evidence of this emerged some years ago in the form of a dug out canoe and some 5,000 years ago the area was also covered in ancient irish forest, evidence also comes to light of this on beaches after winter storms.

Links:
www.inismortours.com
www.dunaonghastours.com