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walking & hiking holidays in Ireland

Hill Walking in Connemara – Five Great Walks

Hill Walking in Connemara 5 Great Walks in the West of Ireland  Walking and Hiking in Connemara Written by Gillian Duggan Hill Walking in Connemara: Recently, we put together our 5 best walks for beginners in Wicklow, cranking up the difficulty one to five. While talking about grades of difficulty and where to go from […]

Killary Harbour walk, Connemara

Killary Harbour Coastal Walk – Famine Walk

Killary Harbour Coastal Walk – Killary Fjord Famine Trail. “Famine walk along Killary Fjord in Connemara.” Killary Harbour Coastal Walk | Killary Fjord is a Famine walk on the southern side of Killary Fjord in Connemara. Killary Fjord Coastal Walk or “Famine Walk”. Connemara. Distance: approx. 16Km from Rosroe to Leenaun with option to shorten. […]

Connemara National Park

Walking in the Wilds of Connemara, Mweelrea

Walking in the Wilds of Connemara and Mweelrea.

Connemara National Park

Connemara National Park

Connemara is a region in Galway in the west of Ireland. It reaches out to the Atlantic Ocean with its Jagged coastline of cliffs and beaches; it also hosts Ireland’s only Fjord. There are two main mountain ranges in this region the 12 Bens and the Maumturks. Both ranges offer incredible walks and scenery that can be admired even from your car as you pass through them.

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