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    The River Corrib: by neri, Views[373]
         		 The coast at Salthill, about 3 km from Galway. That is one of the Aran Islands in the distance, and my work is just across the road from here: by neri, Views[573]
         		 Tacky seaside funfair at salthill: by neri, Views[1535]
         		 Galway Cathedral by night: by neri, Views[440]
         		 Galway Cathedral: by neri, Views[381]
     
    The lovely beaches of Salthill. You can see the lifeguards dogbox in the distance, the little red and yellow shipping container. Very glamourous: by neri, Views[538]
         		 Salthill: by neri, Views[447]
         		 The River Corrib, near where it flows into Galway Bay: by neri, Views[404]
         		 The River Corrib. As it flows through Galway there are a series of weirs that control the flow of water: by neri, Views[479]
         		 Barna Wood, a beautiful little forest on the coast near Galway. As you walk through you almost expect to see little elves and fairies scurrying about: by neri, Views[822]
     
    Barna Wood: by neri, Views[759]
         		 Eyre Square, in the heart of Galway. My hostel is on the bottom right corner. This is a very quiet afternoon in Eyre Squre, sometimes you have a hard time finding a spare patch of grass: by neri, Views[627]
         		 Some weird sculpture in Eyre Square: by neri, Views[780]
         		 The main street in Galway, which is like a long pedestrian mall. This is early in the morning so it's pretty quiet, normally it is full of people walking, sitting in alfresco cafes and bars, and buskers: by neri, Views[731]
         		 Kylemore Abbey: by neri, Views[388]
     
    Kylemore Abbey: by neri, Views[433]
         		 The view halfway to Knocknarea Cairn: by neri, Views[358]
         		 Again on the way up to Knocknarea Cairn. The mountain you see in the distance in Benbulben, and Yeats' grave is near Benbulben, near a little town called Drumcliff: by neri, Views[350]
         		 The river Garavogue runs through the town of Sligo. A lot of towns in Ireland have rivers running through them which they have built stone walls along, and quite a few have rapids as well: by neri, Views[855]
         		 Sligo: by neri, Views[388]
     
    Sligo: by neri, Views[303]
         		 The beach at Strandhill, near Sligo, another famous surfing beach that failed to deliver the goods when I was there: by neri, Views[447]
         		 This is a photo of Clew Bay, from partway up the mountain of Crough Patrick. The bay is said to have 365 islands in it, one for every day of the year: by neri, Views[386]
         		 Clew Bay: by neri, Views[334]
         		 Looking towards the peak of Croagh Patrick. where Saint Patrick made a pilgrimage to the peak and fasted for 40 days and 40 nights. At the end of each July thousands of pilgrims climb the holy mountain, some barefoot, some on their hands and knees (which would really suck because it's covered in scree). There is a stone abbey on top of the mountain, but it is not the stone you find on the mountain, but one found kilometres away by the bay, so the monks would have had to carry it all the way up.: by neri, Views[686]
     
    Detail of the Famine Memorial: by neri, Views[348]
         		 The National Famine memorial, commemorating the lives lost on the
         		 Famine Memorial: by neri, Views[307]
         		 Coming through Connemara National Park, between Westport and Galway. It's absolutely stunning : by neri, Views[438]
         		 Connemara National Park: by neri, Views[462]
     
    A view of Kylemore Abbey, built in the 19th Century for a wealthy English business man who spent his honeymoon in Connemara and fell in love with the place. It took 12 years to build and he kept it asecret from his wife the whole time. Finally he unveiled his surprise and the family moved in, but 2 months later the wife died of a mysterious illness. A few weeks after that, both his daughters were killed in a freak horse riding accident. So he sold it to the nuns and went back to England a broken man, thinking the place was cursed. It is now an ultra-exclusive boarding school: by neri, Views[704]
         		 The next lot of photos are all in a little town called Bundoran, which is quite beautiful but has a tacky 'seaside resort' side to it too, with the ubiquitous seaside funfair that seems to be in every seaside town in Ireland, and this one's a bit bigger than most. Bundoran is one of the famous surf breaks in Ireland, and can apparently get really good, but the weather was crap when I was here. The coastline is quite beautiful, and there are mountains just behind the town that are almost always shrouded in mist.: by neri, Views[924]
         		 Bundoran: by neri, Views[369]
         		 Bundoran : by neri, Views[401]
         		 Bundoran: by neri, Views[360]
     
    Bundoran: by neri, Views[372]
         		 Looking back from the headland to Bundoran town: by neri, Views[389]
         		 Surfing Irish style at Bundoran. And this is summer!: by neri, Views[439]
         		 This day I hired a bike from the hostel in Sligo and went for a ride to this lake, Lough Gill, which is home to heaps of legends and apparently inspired Yeats: by neri, Views[412]
         		 Lough Gill again. The dry stone walls you see in the foreground are everywhere in Ireland: by neri, Views[323]
     
    Lough Gill: by neri, Views[315]
         		 Lough Gill: by neri, Views[338]
         		 This place was pretty amazing, its called Carrowmore Megalithic Cemetary, and it's the largest stone age cemetary in Ireland. The oldest tomb here was built about 5400 BC. It's basically a big field with all these piles of rock and delicatley balanced stone structures scattered around, but the history is amazing: by neri, Views[386]
         		 Inside on of the excavated tombs at Carrowmore: by neri, Views[364]
         		 Carrowmore: by neri, Views[320]
     
    Carrowmore: by neri, Views[307]
         		 Carrowmore: by neri, Views[404]
         		 Carrowmore: by neri, Views[331]
         		 This is the view from the top of a big limestone plateau, on top of which sits Knocknarea Cairn, said to be the grave of the legendary Queen Maeve, which consists of 40000 tonnes of stone in a big, big pile.: by neri, Views[455]
         		 The pathway leading up to Knocknarea Cairn: by neri, Views[355]
     
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