Arigna
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Arigna An Airnigh |
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Town population: | - (2002) |
Rural population: | - (2002) |
Elevation: | 86 m |
County: | Roscommon |
Province: | Connacht |
Irish An Airnigh) is a village in County Roscommon, Ireland.
Arigna (Arigna, near Lough Allen (on the Shannon-Erne Waterway), is a sleepy, easy-going village on a scenic route between Keadue and Sliabh an Iarainn (Gaelic for "Iron Mountain"). The surrounding area has great and unspoiled beauty.
Up to 20 years ago, Arigna had a working coal-mine with more than 400 people working for the company. Today, a small museum hosts artefacts of the Mining Experience and visitors are taken down the mine to experience the conditions under which local people worked for years.
[edit] See also
List of towns in the Republic of Ireland
The beauty and view from the moutains overlooking arigna and surrounding villages and towns is spectacular.One amazing thing is you can see five counties from the mountains.