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Cleggan · Co. Galway

Where Famine Relief Engineering Launched Ireland's Greatest Pirate Queen

1822 witnessed the construction of Cleggan's magnificent pier by Scottish engineer Alexander Nimmo during the "Forgotten Famine" when his revolutionary employment scheme provided desperate local families with wages to purchase food while creating the maritime infrastructure th…

Cleggan is a small place in County Galway. We're still writing the proper hub for it — pubs, food, walks, the things to skip — and it'll appear here when it does.