Arigna
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| Arigna An Airnigh |
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| Irish Grid Reference G931142 |
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| Province: | Connacht | |
| County: | County Roscommon | |
| Elevation: | 86 m | |
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Arigna (Irish: An Airnigh) is a village in County Roscommon, Ireland. 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.
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.The working conditions were extremely dangerous in the mines the conditions were cold wet and dirty.
[edit] See also
List of towns in the Republic of Ireland
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