Under-rated Irish Scenery

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[muppet]

Most of that is Wickla.

[spuds]

lough nafooey on mayo galway border class spot







near by

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Class spot alright, very few people seem to know about it. You go up beyond Tuarmhiceady, along by the lake, up the high road to the right, into the mountains and theres the Lough, its split between the two counties right, then into the 12 Bens and either left deep into Galway or right back to Mayo.

[The Iceman]

Home for a bit of a holiday and we headed to Mayo there for the week. On the advice of some posters here we ventured to Kylemore Abbey and have to say the last 7 miles in to the Abbey and the Abbey itself have the best scenery I have ever seen in any country I have visited. I nearly crashed the car at some of it. Made me proud to be an Irish man and encouraged me to go and see more of the country I call home.
Glencar was a nice wee stop on the way back to Armagh too.
Good call lads.

[blast05]

View from the top of Ceide Fields looking east along the coast.... the road at the bottom of the picture being on the edge of Ceide cliffs where there is a 400' vertical drop



Ceide from the air looking west


Downpatrick Head (in the distance in the first photo)


and only the adventurous get to see this view

[Never beat the deeler]

There are some excellent views around Lough Corrib, where my grandmother comes from, between Maam and Clonbur.
Cant find any photos that do it justice, these are a few from the interweb:







And of course, lovely Nephin!

[fingerbob]

On the topic of Downpatrick Head, I've always been curious on why it's called that as I'm from Downpatrick myself. Is there any connection there or jus coincidence?

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On the topic of Downpatrick Head, I've always been curious on why it's called that as I'm from Downpatrick myself. Is there any connection there or jus coincidence?

Places called after Patrick of the Britons is common north of the Esker Riada, sure we have a mountain called after him in the same county.

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Mayo has easily the most varied landscape in Ireland. The only types of Irish feature we are lacking is a Volcanic feature. I used think we lacked a Carste landscape too, but we do on the Currane Peninsula, but its extra special because it all pink, amazing and a Gaeltacht to boot. Its amazing there is no proper pictures of Currane on-line is one of Irelands most spectacular features unrecognised. Even in Mayo most people know nothing about one of the most amazing places in Ireland, I think thats because 90% drive staight to the beautiful and stunning Achill and 9% head up around the amazing Blacksod Bay. I would guess only 1% drive around Irelands Pink Peninsula   

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Also from West Mayo you can see Irelands tallest Cliffs on Achill in Mayo. From North Mayo you can see Irelands second tallest all acrosss the sea to Donegal. You can see the best of Donegal from Mayo, so choose Mayo, coz its the MOTHER FCKN BEST BIT OF EARTH ON PLANET EARTH.

[blast05]

The only types of Irish feature we are lacking is a Volcanic feature

Depends on ones definition of a volcanic feature.
In Belderrig, the island called Horse Island is split from the main land by a ... geology speak  .... a Tertiary volcanic intrusion into the metamorphic bedrock from the time of the opening of the Atlantic which has since been eroded away to leave a very linear and symmetircal gap between the mainland and the island
Doesn't really show it too well...


Or just west of Ross beach in Killala there is a 500 metre wide volcanic intrusion which can be seen exposed along the coast (500m long by ~40m wide) again dating to the opening of the Atlantic. When you walk on it it reminds you of what a volcanic landscape looks like.

[ONeill]

I thought Antrim was just a big volcano too.

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The only types of Irish feature we are lacking is a Volcanic feature

Depends on ones definition of a volcanic feature.
In Belderrig, the island called Horse Island is split from the main land by a ... geology speak  .... a Tertiary volcanic intrusion into the metamorphic bedrock from the time of the opening of the Atlantic which has since been eroded away to leave a very linear and symmetircal gap between the mainland and the island
Doesn't really show it too well...


Or just west of Ross beach in Killala there is a 500 metre wide volcanic intrusion which can be seen exposed along the coast (500m long by ~40m wide) again dating to the opening of the Atlantic. When you walk on it it reminds you of what a volcanic landscape looks like.

So we got everything Ireland has to offer so. I can never understand why Bord Failte ignores promoting Mayo as a tourist destination, it easily blows Donegal, Kerry, Cork, Clare, Galway and Wicklow out of the water in regard scenery.

By the way another stunning county Sligo seems to get overlooked too.

Why?

[gallsman]

I'd say it's probably due to all the rain and the vast amounts of shite, barren land covering 90% of the place.