Guides to Clifden
8 articles, each about one thing people ask: a station, a square, a beach, a festival, a castle. Every one is written from a named source in this site’s own words, and every place it mentions is pinned on the model.
Clifden Castle is the Gothic Revival manor John D'Arcy, founder of Clifden, built about 1818 west of the town above Clifden Bay: empty since 1894,…
Connemara is the Atlantic west of County Galway beyond Lough Corrib: named for the Conmhaicne Mara, the sea branch of an early tribe, ruled by the…
The Connemara pony, Capaillín Chonamara, is Ireland's only native pony breed, shaped by the region's harsh ground from Norse, Irish Hobby and…
Connemara marble, Irish green, is the rare green marble quarried since the 1700s at Lissoughter near Recess and at Clifden: a true marble of…
The Wild Atlantic Way is the 2,500 km coastal driving route from Inishowen in Donegal to Kinsale in Cork, launched in 2014 with 157 discovery…
On 14 and 15 June 1919 John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown flew a Vickers Vimy from St John's, Newfoundland, to a bog at Derrygimlagh near…
Clifden station was the terminus of the Midland Great Western Railway's branch from Galway, 79 km away: a directors' train arrived on 3 May 1895,…
The N59 is the national secondary road that circles the west of Ireland from Sligo through Ballina and Westport into Galway at Leenaun, where its…