IMG_3609 Bridge near Oughterard, used in the John Wayne movie The Quiet Man
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IMG_3610 Connemara sheep
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IMG_3613 Connemara peat bog with cut trenches
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IMG_3616 Connemara. A bog produces 12 feet of peat in 15,000 years
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IMG_3617 Connemara
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IMG_3622 Connemara sheep
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IMG_3624 Maumturk Mountains near Maum.
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IMG_3627 Wall building projects provided employment in disadvantaged west-coast Gaeltacht (Gaelic speaking) areas
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IMG_3628 The walls were often randomly located. They were just to make work.
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IMG_3630 Leenane. Killary Fjord. Site of the movie The Field, with Richard Harris
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IMG_3632 Killary Fjord fish farming of salmon and mussels
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IMG_3633 Killary Fjord fish farms
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