Guides to Clonbur
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.
Ashford Castle at Cong, on the Galway side of Lough Corrib, began as a de Burgo castle of 1228, fell to Bingham in 1589, passed to the Brownes in…
Cong Abbey, the Royal Abbey of Cong, is the 13th-century Augustinian ruin at Cong: founded on St Feichin's 7th-century church, refounded by High…
Lough Mask, Loch Measca, is the 83-square-kilometre limestone lake north of Clonbur, fourth largest in Ireland, fed by Lough Carra and emptying…
Joyce Country, Dúiche Sheoigheach, is the hill country of Galway and Mayo between Lough Mask and Lough Corrib that takes in Clonbur, Cong,…
Loch na Fuaiche, Lough Nafooey, the lake of the fissure, is a rectangular glacial lake about 2.5 miles long and half a mile wide in a steep valley…
Éamon Ó Cuív, born 23 June 1950, son of the Celtic scholar Brian Ó Cuív and Emer de Valera, the last surviving daughter of the Taoiseach and…
Sir William Wilde, born at Kilkeevin near Castlerea in March 1815 and died on 19 April 1876, was the eye and ear surgeon who ran St Mark's…
The Cross of Cong, Cros Chonga, the yellow staff, is the early 12th-century processional cross of oak covered in gold, silver, niello, copper,…