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ON THE PLANTS OF (NORTH) ARAN ISLAND, 
CO. DONEGAL 
By Henry Curcuester Hart, B.A. 
Tue island of Aran is situated on the north- west coast of 
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accustomed to the passage, and what with shallows, rocks, rapids, 
currents, and numerous windings amongst the islets, it is often by 
no means an easy journey. 
This s (northern) island of Aran is to be distinguished from the 
southern islands of the same name at the entrance o Galway Bay, 
of whose sere I published an account in 1875.* 
Like many other ee islands, Aran slopes eastward to sea- 
level, sna faces the ocean with a wall of cliffs. The scenery along 
these cliffs is superb, Sijsocialis that of the bay east of Torneady 
Point, where ae Hoods from 400 to 550 feet, rising Seanelidiontarly 
from the water’ 
The island 4 is Habiuk three miles and a quarter wide at its 
eotiiane extremity, and about three miles and three-quarters long 
from north to south. It contains 4355 acres, or nearly seven 
Its population at the census of 1871 was 1174. 
exclusively the cultivated and inhabited portion of the island. 
Inland there is good tain pasturage and abundance of turf 
an undulating waste of heather and bog. There are eight sma 
scattered —x of which Lough Shore, about three-quarters of a 
mile round, is the hee argest. The highest point in the island is 
Cliidaniller, 750 fee 
The formation wa ‘Aranmore is chiefly a hard reddish sandstone, 
sometimes shaly, but sree pores siliceous, and often 
into quartzose. The red gra of the Rosses a ear here in 
corner of the island; there are many ralicaiee banda o trap; ° 
nese and iron or 
psn a from the N.E.) of red granite lying on the sand- 
ne; these extend for about a mile at from two to three hundred 
feet above weak ieee and the granite oe. to the adjoining dis- 
trict of the mainland called “ The Ros 
‘A List of Plants found in the Islands of Aran, Galw be Bay,’ by Henry 
Guichen Hart, B.A, Dublin: Hodges, Foster, and Co. 187 
