Qualla: Inis Mór https://qualla.com/inis-mor en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:11 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/3/n/inis-mor-wk/hero-small.webp Qualla: Inis Mór https://qualla.com/inis-mor Inis Mór: Introduction https://qualla.com/inis-mor/ Photo credit Mlhynes, CC BY-SA 4.0. Eight hundred and twenty people live on Inis Mór now - down from over three thousand in the famine-era 19th century, and dispersed across a strip of limestone twelve kilometres long and rarely more than three wide. There are no taxis, no car rentals, and no scheduled buses on the island. There never have been. Most visitors arrive on the 40-minute ferry from Rossaveel, walk past the harbour at Kilronan, and hire a bicycle or climb into a pony trap. The island runs on its own terms, and those terms haven't changed all that much.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/3/n/inis-mor-wk/gc3n-inis-m-r-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Inis Mór: Three Roads West https://qualla.com/inis-mor/ Photo credit Velela, Public domain. From Kilronan, three roads thread westward across the island toward the village of Kilmurvey. The Main Road carries most of the traffic; the Low Road dawdles along the north coast with views back to Connemara; the Back Road meanders south through fields walled in by stones the is...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/3/n/inis-mor-wk/gc3n-inis-m-r-three-roads-west.mp3 0:06 2 full Inis Mór: The Cliff Fortress https://qualla.com/inis-mor/ Photo credit User:Jpatokal, CC BY-SA 4.0. Dún Aonghasa anchors the south coast of Inis Mór and draws nearly every visitor to its semicircular ramparts. The fort is genuinely old - the inner stone walls were raised in the Bronze and Iron Ages, and the site was used from around 1100 BC - and genuinely strange. Its open sid...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/3/n/inis-mor-wk/gc3n-inis-m-r-the-cliff-fortress.mp3 0:06 3 full Inis Mór: The Holes the Sea Breathes https://qualla.com/inis-mor/ Photo credit Valfex, CC BY-SA 3.0. Near the eastern tip of Inis Mór, the limestone has been undermined from below until the roof of a sea cave collapses, leaving a vertical shaft - a poll seideáin, or blow-hole. There are several on the island; the two best are near Killeany. In calm weather the sea gloops and spl...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/3/n/inis-mor-wk/gc3n-inis-m-r-the-holes-the-sea-breathes.mp3 0:06 4 full Inis Mór: Saints, Stones, and the Sun of the West https://qualla.com/inis-mor/ Photo credit Dieglop, CC BY-SA 4.0. Enda of Aran founded Ireland's first true monastery near Killeany around AD 490, and what is now a fragment of a 9th-century church is reputedly his burial site at Teaghlach Einne. From this small island, monks fanned out across Ireland - Ciarán of Clonmacnoise studied here, and ...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/3/n/inis-mor-wk/gc3n-inis-m-r-saints-stones-and-the-sun-of-the-west.mp3 0:06 5 full Inis Mór: The Twentieth Century's Edge https://qualla.com/inis-mor/ Photo credit Garris, CC BY-SA 2.0. Father Ted festival-goers descend on Inis Mór every March in honour of the 1995-1998 sitcom Father Ted, set on a fictional Craggy Island. The shipwrecked steam trawler MV Plassy that opens the show's title sequence still sits rusting on the shore of Inis Oírr next door, but most ...

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