Lá mór is ea Féile Mhic Dara gach bliain i gCarna i gConamara nuair a dhéantar ceiliúradh ar naomhphatrún an cheantair Carna le rásaí currachaí agus bád. Chuaigh Iris Aniar chomh fada leis an gceiliúradh le eolas a fháil ar thábhacht na féile do mhuintir an cheantair.
Cuid den chultúr ag dul siad iad na báid a dhéantar i gConamara agus ansin a chuirtear in iomaíocht lena chéile le linn an tsamhraidh. Labhair Ciarán Ó Gríofa, Cumann Huiceirí na Gaillimhe & Máire Bríd Breathnach ag labhairt faoi na geallta bád agus rásaí currachaí ag Féile Mhic Dara.
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The 16 July, is the feast day of St MacDara, a little known sixth-century saint, who has long been revered on the western shores of Co. Galway. He is the patron saint of west Connacht fishermen, of the parish of Moyrus in Connemara and, apparently, of new potatoes, which come in July. To this day, on Féile Mhic Dara (St MacDara's feast day), pilgrims make their way by sea to a small, uninhabited island called Oileán Mhic Dara (St MacDara’s Island), off Mace Head in Conamara, in honour of the saint.
