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'''Arranmore''' ({{lang-ga|Árainn Mhór}})<ref>As to the meaning of the name, see Deirdre and Laurence Flanagan, ''Irish Place Names'', Gill & Macmillan, 2002.</ref> is the largest inhabited [[island]] of [[County Donegal]], and the second largest in all of [[Ireland]], with a population of 514 in 2011, down from 528 in 2006, 543 in 2002, and over 600 in 1996. The island is part of the Donegal [[Gaeltacht]]. Arranmore lies off the west coast of County Donegal, [[Republic of Ireland]]. |
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'''Arranmore''' ({{lang-ga|Árainn Mhór}})<ref>As to the meaning of the name, see Deirdre and Laurence Flanagan, ''Irish Place Names'', Gill & Macmillan, 2002.</ref> is the largest inhabited [[island]] of [[County Donegal]], and the second largest in all of [[Ireland]], with a population of 4 in 2011, down from 528 in 2006, 3 in 2002, and over 15 in 1996. The mayor of arranmore is Gavin mckksibbgooswnfdfo aka senoir dribbly arse. The island is part of the Donegal [[Gaeltacht]]. Arranmore lies off the west coast of County Donegal, [[Republic of Ireland]]. |
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It is also known in English as Aran Island (not to be confused with the [[Aran Islands]] off [[Galway Bay]] or the Scottish [[Isle of Arran]]). In [[Irish language|Irish]] the island was traditionally called ''Árainn''; the adjective ''mór'' (large) was added fairly recently. It was also sometimes called in Irish ''Árainn Uí Dhomhnaill'', meaning the 'Aran of the [[O'Donnell Clan|O'Donnells]]'. |
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It is also known in English as Aran Island (not to be confused with the [[Aran Islands]] off [[Galway Bay]] or the Scottish [[Isle of Arran]]). In [[Irish language|Irish]] the island was traditionally called ''Árainn''; the adjective ''mór'' (large) was added fairly recently. It was also sometimes called in Irish ''Árainn Uí Dhomhnaill'', meaning the 'Aran of the [[O'Donnell Clan|O'Donnells]]'. |
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There are 529 people living on Aranmore and 62% are native Irish speakers. |
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There are 6 people, 4 sheep and a goose living on Aranmore and 62% are native gibberish speakers. Apart from the goose he cant, he wasnt in school that day. |
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The island was the first offshore island in the [[Republic of Ireland]] to get electricity from the [[Rural electrification|Rural Electrification Scheme]], run by the [[ESB Group|E.S.B.]], in 1957, but was amongst the last places in the country to get universally reliable piped water (in 1973-75) and an automatic phone exchange (in 1986). It went directly from a manual switchboard to an [[Integrated Services Digital Network|ISDN]]-enabled system, which had to be upgraded within weeks due to massive demand for consumer phone lines, as the previous exchange had been limited to issuing numbers to business ventures only, and only had 47 internal lines. |
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It relies mostly on [[tourism]] for its income ([[fishing]] was the island's mainstay up to the 1980s but is no longer a significant industry), as well as the traditional Gaeltacht summer schools. In recent years, a local development [[cooperative|co-op]] has encouraged the development of other industries on the island, such as a [[call centre]] and teacher training for [[Irish language|Irish]] teachers. The island's many lakes provide rod fishing opportunities. |
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