Ardoileán
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Ardoileán or Ard Oileán, known in English as High Island (a translation of the Irish name), is a small island off the northwest coast of Connemara in County Galway, Ireland. It was once the site of an early Irish monastic community.
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- High Island
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- Ardoileán early medieval ecclesiastical site
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- island of Ireland
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- Ardoileán
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- Irish language
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- Atlantic Ocean
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- Ireland
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- Connacht
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- Galway
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- Hermitage
- Modern history
- See also
- Notes
- Secondary sources
- Further reading
- Poetry
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Ardoileán or Ard Oileán, known in English as High Island (a translation of the Irish name), is a small island off the northwest coast of Connemara in County Galway, Ireland. It was once the site of an early Irish monastic community.
==Hermitage== It is one of thirty-odd islands off the west coast of Ireland, between Inishtrahull and Clear Island, which were settled by hermits and monastic communities in the early Christian period. Other such islands in the direct vicinity of Ardoiléan include Clare Island, Chapel Island, Caher Island, Inishturk, Inishbofin and Inishark. Since (at least) the seventh century, Ardoiléan had been the site of an early monastery or hermitage, reputedly founded by St Féchín of Fore (d. 665).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ardoileán” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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