page_title: Carraroe
section_title: Irish language
hierarchical_section_title: Carraroe / Irish language
caption_attribution_description: English: Frozen Caladh Thadhg lake
context_page_description: Carraroe is a village in County Galway, Ireland, in the Irish-speaking region of Conamara, known for its traditional fishing boats known as Galway Hookers. Its population is widely dispersed over An Cheathrú Rua peninsula between Cuan an Fhir Mhóir and Cuan Chasla. An Cheathrú Rua has an unusual beach, Trá an Dóilín, a biogenic gravel beach made of coralline algae known as "maerl".
context_section_description: Irish (specifically the Connacht dialect) is the main spoken language of An Cheathrú Rua, the settlement being the most populous Irish speaking village in the Conamara Gaeltacht.
  In 2016, An Cheathrú Rua was a town with one of the highest percentages of daily Irish speakers in Ireland, with 61.6 per cent stating that they spoke it daily. Under the Gaeltacht Act 2012, the Gaeltacht was redefined into 26 Limistéar Pleanála Teanga (LPTs), or Language Planning Areas. Of these, An Cheathrú Rua area recorded the 3rd largest proportion of daily Irish speakers in Ireland in 2016, at 65.1 per cent.
  There are two summer schools, (one of which is Coláiste Aodáin), that teach Irish to English-speaking secondary-school students from all over Ireland. An Cheathrú Rua is also a centre for the Irish-language media. The main national Irish-language newspaper Foinse had its head office in the village; the Irish-language radio station, RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta, is in nearby Casla, and the Irish-language TV station, TG4, is based at Baile na hAbhann, a few kilometres east. Catholic church services are in Irish only. All school lessons are conducted in Irish.
caption: Caladh Thadhg lake frozen 25 December 2010
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