Exploring Ireland's Wild Atlantic Way: A Travel Guide to the West Coast of Ireland by David Flanagan & Richard Creagh

Author:David Flanagan & Richard Creagh [Flanagan, David]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Three Rock Books
Published: 2016-11-15T00:00:00+00:00

Galway

The vast majority of the coastline of County Galway lies within Connemara, which due to a lack of an official definition, has boundaries that are a little unclear. Everyone agrees on the northern border, Killary Harbour, and the Atlantic defines it in the south and west. The uncertainty relates to the eastern edge - some say it stretches to the edge of Galway City while others draw a line from Killary Harbour to Kilkieran Bay. Either way, Connemara is one of the most popular tourist areas in Ireland.

Compared to the most rugged parts of Ireland’s Atlantic coast Galway’s coastline is reasonably low-lying, and as a result the area between land and sea is easily accessed. This coupled with the extremely jagged, indented nature of the coastline means that it is home to a massive number of tiny bays, rocky coves and sandy beaches.

Galway City, the only city that the Wild Atlantic Way passes through, is a vibrant, youthful place. With a bustling nightlife and plenty of the pubs and restaurants it's the ideal place to spend some time before heading back into the wild.

It’s worth noting that from a geological point of view The Aran Islands have much more in common with the rocky landscape of the Burren in Country Clare, but they are part of County Galway. They are the strongholds of island life in Ireland, still relatively well populated after most other offshore communities have dwindled. Their combination of sea-locked isolation and lunar landscape is enough to keep attracting tourists for many years to come.

The predominantly flat terrain near the coast, particularly south of Clifden, is ideal for cycling and there is a network of many hundreds of kilometres of small, very quiet roads, known as boreens, to explore.

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