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Returning from the islands district and the Carraroe peninsula, the
road heads almost straight for Scríb (Screebe) and Rosmuc where
Teach an Phiarsaigh, the summer home of Pádraig Mac Piarais,
Ireland's 1916 patriot and poet, is located. Now a museum, the house
has been restored as it was in Pearse's day and is open to visitors
during the tourist season. The road continues west again along the
coast to Carna (Carna) and Cill Chiaráin (Kilkerrin), a land of Great
Celtic and early Christian resonance. This area is especially
renowned for its traditional sean nós singers keep an ear open for
the impromptu sessions!. Small islands cluster in the bay and the
most notable of these is perhaps Oileán Mhic Dara (MacDara's
Island) with its Saint Mac Dara's church, where on the 16th of July
each year, the Saint's day, boats will bring you to the island, a bare
granite outcrop in the ocean on which stands an Early Christian
stone oratory dedicated to the Saint's name. From Carna and
Kilkerrin the road through this lovely West Coast Gaeltacht winds to
An tSraith Salach (Recess) before turning back again towards An
Teach Dóite (Maam), crossroads of the Connemara Gaeltacht.
Dan O'Hara's Homestead, Connemara Heritage and History Centre
This national award-winning centre offers visitors a unique history
lesson spanning time from the prehistoric to the present. It has the
restored home of Dan O'Hara, a tenant farmer who was evicted