Carna, County Galway

[1] The National University of Ireland, Galway, has an Irish-language and educational centre (Áras Shorcha Ní Ghuairim) in Roisín na Mainiach, near Carna.

[citation needed] During the aftermath of the Irish War of Independence and the Civil War, Carna was a major center for the work of the Irish Folklore Commission in recording Ireland's endangered folklore, mythology, and oral literature.

[4] There is an Irish language college for second-level students located in Carna and Cill Chiaráin called Coláiste Sheosaimh.

Saint Macdara's Island (Cruach na Cara)[5] is off the coast of Mace Head near Carna.

The sailors were brought to Galway and were publicly hung in Eyre Square by Governor Bingham of Connaught.

Two years previous, a Spanish fishing vessel named the 'Arosa' sank, killing 12 people after running aground 2 miles from Duck Island at Sceirde Rocks.

Following a report from the Marine Casualty Investigation Board it was concluded that it wasn't known what had caused the ship to run aground due to the damage to the ships systems caused by the ferocity of the collision and removal of vital equipment during the investigation.

[citation needed] On 6 February 1921, during the Irish War of Independence, four volunteers of the IRA were making their way by boat from Carna (or, more precisely, Moyrus beach in Dooyeher) to Roundstone for a Battalion meeting, when they were caught by a violent storm and drowned off the shore of Inishlackan.

The local team is shared with the neighbouring village of Cashel giving it the name Carna-Cashel or Cárna-Caiseal.

The island of Muighinis can also be included and this adds the townlands of Ros Dugán, Feithearnach and Ruisín a'Chaladh.