Luxury Walking Weekend in Connemara

Connemara sits in the very west of Ireland in County Galway and has some of the most spectacular scenery in the country. The coastline weaves in and out along the Wild Atlantic Way, with attractive small fishing villages such as Roundstone, Clifden and Leenaun. The landscape is exceptionally beautiful, with many freshwater lakes surrounded by steep mountains including The Maumturks, and the Twelve Bens, the two most prominent mountain ranges in the area. Connemara National Park covers 2,000 hectares of scenic mountains, bogs and woodlands and was established in 1980.

Luxury Walking Weekend in Connemara – This walking weekend is designed to showcase some of the highlights of this famous Irish landscape.  Our Itinerary offers a range of hikes and walks, from the Western Way through Maumeen towards Lough Inagh, to a walk along Killary Fjord known as “the famine walk” and a guided walk on Inisbofin.

We will be staying at the luxury accommodation of Renvyle House on the Wild Atlantic Way shoreline in Connemara.

Cost: €495pps Members – €475pps single supplement of €95 (Places Limited)

Deposit: 10% required at the time of booking.
Includes:

• 2 nights BB with breakfast in the luxury 4-star Renvyle House
• 1 Evening meal at the award winning Roshenduff Restaurant (5 Course)
• Guided walk on Inisbofin.
• 3 Guided walks with qualified guides.
• Transport from Dublin.

About Renvyle House:

First opened as a hotel in 1883, it is spectacularly located on a 150-acre estate on the shores of the Wild Atlantic Way in Connemara, Co. Galway. The grounds include a private freshwater lake for fishing and boating, a beach, woodlands, gardens and numerous activities on site including tennis, croquet, outdoor heated swimming pool, canoeing and shore angling. For a unique location, an award-winning Restaurant, comfortable bedrooms and a truly uplifting break, here, the only stress is on relaxation.

It was also the home of poet, statesman and surgeon Oliver St. John Gogarty (Buck Mulligan of James Joyce’s “Ulysses”) and, since becoming a country house hotel in 1883, Renvyle House has played host to many famous people – Augustus John, Lady Gregory, Yeats and Churchill among them.

About The Walks on our Luxury Walking Weekend in Connemara:

The Western Way- approx. 12Km with incline of approx 300m.

Following Western Way from Maum via Maumeen to Lough Inagh -This walk will bring us from small country roads and boreens. Then onto a mountain trail between the  “Bens” to a high point of St Patrick’s mass rock. Once here we will start to see out West across the Atlantic and Clifden and north up towards Mayo coastline and Mweelrea. We descend from here as we make or way towards Lough Inagh.

Famine Walk – Killary Fjord – approx. 8Km incline of approx. 80m – 100m.

Starting from Rosroe Pier. The trail sits on the south side of the Killary Fjord in Connemara is one of Ireland’s most scenic and historic flat coastal walks. Also known as Killary harbour coastal walk or the “famine walk” as much of the road on which the trail takes was built as relief work during the Irish famine 1845-52.

The trail is a linear coastal walk along the south side of Killary Fjord, Ireland’s only true Fjord.

Check out our Blog about this walk here – https://www.hilltoptreks.com/blog/killary-harbour-coastal-walk

Inisbofin Island Loop Walk: Cloonamore Loop walk is an 8 km loop with an incline of 80m. It starts on the east side of the Island at the pier and takes in small roads and lane-ways and bog roads to the far side of this wonderful Island. Inisbofin is full of beautiful scenery, history and local folklore not to mention its incredible beaches.