... Its gonna be a great postcard trip through Ireland the next couple of days... visiting some of the most beautiful places on this amazing green little island☘️☘️☘️... Inishmore is the largest and most easily accessible of the three Aran Islands... though the landscape is not the typical green fields of Ireland... it’s rocky and desolate, an extension of the limestone that forms The Burren, to which the Arans were joined millions of years ago... with view of Dún Aengus an ancient fort at the edge of a high cliff... there are no walls or fences protecting a fall into the ocean a hundred meters below the cliff rim... that makes this spot so interesting and unique... a popular tourist attraction and an important archaeological site that also offers spectacular views to the ocean... the best-known and largest of several prehistoric stone forts on the Aran Islands... Thanks a lot Andrene! (✿ ♥‿♥)
The Aran Islands are a group of three islands located at the mouth of Galway Bay, on the west coast of Ireland. Inis Mór, Inis Meáin and Inis Oírr are the last lands to the west before you reach America.
The island of Inishmore has over 50 different monuments of Christian, pre-Christian and Celtic mythological heritage. Fort Aengus is believed to have been built and occupied originally in the Iron Age, although there was habitation at the site earlier, in the Bronze Age. The walls of the fort have been rebuilt to a height of 6m and have wall walks, chambers, and flights of stairs.
Its name, meaning "Fort of Aonghas", refers to the pre-Christian god of the same name described in Irish mythology, or the mythical king, Aonghus mac Úmhór.
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