Editing Carraroe (section)

== Galway hookers ==
[[File:Carraroe boats.jpg|thumb|Galway hookers in Greatmans Bay]]
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Galway Hookers are a distinctive form of native Irish boat, and Carraroe hosts an annual regatta of these vessels.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://visitgalway.ie/event/feile-an-doilin-regatta/ | website = visitgalway.ie | title = Féile an Dóilín Regatta | accessdate = 16 February 2021 }}</ref> As of 2006 this event, which is named ''Féile an Dóilín'' after the area's "coral strand", was the largest ever regatta of Galway hookers.{{Citation needed|date=February 2007}} The main boats are the larger ''Báid Mhóra'' (big boats) and ''Leathbháid'' (half-boats), which in earlier times were used for hauling [[peat|turf]] from the peat bogs in Connemara to the [[Aran Islands]] and [[The Burren]] of [[County Clare]], where peat is absent. The smaller boats are the ''Gleoiteoga'', which were traditionally used for fishing. These boats can be found at Sruthán Pier, which is the main pier in Carraroe and in the ''Caladh Thadhg'' area.

The main activity of these boats is racing, and there are several regattas along the Connemara coast.  Currach racing is held on ''Loch an Mhuilinn'', the lake close to the village. Every year at the festival of ''Cruinniú na mBád'', a flotilla of traditional Connemara boats race across Galway Bay from Carraroe to [[Kinvara]].{{citation needed|date=February 2021}}