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Aran Islands

Name: Aran Islands
Address: IE

53.1167°N -9.7000°W · Q212893

One English word in this atlas traces back to Aran Islands. It sits in Ireland.

All of Ireland

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Aran jumpernoun · 20th century

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The "ancient clan patterns" are a 20th-century marketing invention.

Knitting for sale grew on the Aran Islands off Galway in the early 1900s, and the sweaters reached American shops after the 1940s. The claim that each family had a hereditary stitch so drowned fishermen could be identified traces to J. M. Synge's drama and later tourist copy, not to island records.

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