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Clare Island

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Clare Island, c.6 sq mi (15 sq km), Co. Mayo, W Republic of Ireland, at the entrance to Clew Bay. There are ruins of a 13th-century Carmelite abbey and of the 16th-century castle of Grania or Grace O'Malley, queen of the island.


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Co Mayo's Clare Island, Inishbiggle and Inishturk have 193 while the Aran Islands off Co Galway have 1,178.
The story goes that it was the only castle she didn't control in the area around Clare Island and Clew Bay, which touches the towns of Westport and Louisburgh in County Mayo.
Clare Island is a place Where by ferry you must go, It's the nicest place in Ireland, And the quietest in Mayo.
 
 
 
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