A small village 4km/6km west of Spiddal on the coast road, with a nice beach, which was the scene of a local tragedy in 1917, when a German mine washed up on the beach and killed nine local people who came to examine it. A monument commemorates this event. Micheal Breathnach is also commemorated by a monument, as he was born in the locality in 1881. The airport that services the Aran Islands is located at Inverin; flights take amere 5 minutes !

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