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VISITING IRELAND'S ISLANDS XYUANDBEYOND.COM

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XYUANDBEYOND.COM Achill is one of the few Irish Islands that you can get to overland as it is connected to the mainland by a swing bridge. ACHILL ISLAND

XYUANDBEYOND.COM INISHMORE ISLAND Inishmore is the biggest island in the Aran Islands chain and it is inhabited and reached easily by ferry from Galway Bay.

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XYUANDBEYOND.COM SKELLIGS Where Star Wars was filmed is a UNESCO world heritage site and can be reached by climbing over five hundred steps of the old stone stairway.

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XYUANDBEYOND.COM Great Saltee, is the most famous bird sanctuary in Ireland

XYUANDBEYOND.COM The most remote inhabited island in Ireland sitting off the coast of Donegal. TORY ISLAND

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