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The Feast of St MacDara (Lá Fhéile Mhic Dara)

The Feast of St MacDara (Lá Fhéile Mhic Dara)

On July 16th each year hundreds in their own currachs, boats and canoes or ferried there by local fishermen, make a pilgrimage off the coast of Carna to the tiny, uninhabited St. MacDara's Island to celebrate Féile Mhic Dara (Macdara Festival)

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