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Coral Strand or Trá an Dóilín is made from the excreted mineral (1/3 calcium carbonate) of corallines red algae, rather than true coral. It has been used in the past to sweeten the acidic local soils, and is a soil conditioner, BUT it is a non-renewable resource as the stuff is excreted at a far slower rate than it could be used.
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An Cheathrú Rua the Irish for carraroe, means the Red or Ruddy Quarter and despite being a townland (baile) it derives the first part from the Irish name for a quarter-division of a wider baile / community. The ruddy part refers often to poor land, through the browning or bronzing of dead vegetation, possibly.
Connemara, Conmaic ne mara is commonly translated as the tribe of Cormac by the sea. It has never had any official standing but refers to the wilder district of Connacht and County Galway which stretches west into the Atlantic. Despite - or because - of official neglect it retained a strong local identity, large Irish-speaking communities, its own breed of horse and a tradition of personal and communal independence.
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