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adjective
of or relating to the Aran Islands
made of thick undyed wool with its natural oils retained: an Aran sweater
Historical Examples

Yeats found him in France in 1898 and advised him to go to the aran Islands, to live there as if he were one of the people.
Modern British Poetry Various

Mr. Balfour’s benefactions have not been confined to the aran Islands.
Ireland as It Is Robert John Buckley (AKA R.J.B.)

Similar cliffs on a smaller scale are those of Moher and aran, in the county Clare.
Climbing in The British Isles, Vol. II W. P. Haskett Smith

Another day soon we are to go into Galway, and to the aran Isles.
William Sharp (Fiona Macleod) Elizabeth A. Sharp

The aran landscape as your vessel approaches from Galway is a peculiar one—peculiar to aran.
The South Isles of Aran Oliver J. Burke

aran brings its turf from Connemara and carries them limestone in exchange.
Connaught Stephen Lucius Gwynn

With Druidism departed the forests of the ilex and the quercus from aran.
The South Isles of Aran Oliver J. Burke

The history of these men is the history of S. Enda’s work on aran.
The Lives of the Saints, Volume III (of 16): March Sabine Baring-Gould

It is this technical shortcoming that for me takes away somewhat from the exceeding beauty of this tragedy of aran.
Irish Plays and Playwrights Cornelius Weygandt

To the purity of the morals of the aran women there are many testimonies.
The South Isles of Aran Oliver J. Burke

wild goat, a descendant of Seir the Horite (Gen. 36:28).