On Sunday, our ferry crossing to Inishmore was very choppy. It was good to see Shearwaters flying the waves together with diving Gannets but impossible to photograph with the ferry pitching and rolling. Inis Mór is the largest of the three Aran Islands and includes several ancient stone forts and churches among its antiquities. We took a minibus tour which included the impressive of the stone forts is Dun Aengus. Excavations indicated that people had been living at the hill top from c.1500 BC with the first walls and dwelling houses being erected c. 1100 BC It is semicircular, resting on the edge of a perpendicular cliff rising 100 metres out of the ocean. We also visited the Seven Churches site, which is the ruin of two main buildings, thought to be named after an inscription 'VII Romani' found on one of the stones.
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