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Bencorr and Lough Inagh in Connemara, County Galway, Ireland
Galway aglow
More than half the communities collectively called the Gaeltacht – pockets of Ireland where Irish is spoken daily – are found here in County Galway. This region, Connemara, is especially noted for preserving its Irish language and culture, not to mention natural beauty (seen here in abundance as sunrise-bathed Bencorr reflects upon Lough Inagh). Although the Gaeltacht is sadly shrinking, the resilient Irish tongue isn't out of luck yet as census data suggest most teens throughout the Emerald Isle are proficient speakers.
Galway aglow
More than half the communities collectively called the Gaeltacht – pockets of Ireland where Irish is spoken daily – are found here in County Galway. This region, Connemara, is especially noted for preserving its Irish language and culture, not to mention natural beauty (seen here in abundance as sunrise-bathed Bencorr reflects upon Lough Inagh). Although the Gaeltacht is sadly shrinking, the resilient Irish tongue isn't out of luck yet as census data suggest most teens throughout the Emerald Isle are proficient speakers.
Where mountains meet water in displays worthy of ancient myth, an ancestral tongue lives on in daily speech.
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