Shannon Airport 1 hr 36
Cong Heritage (1 min) Abbey, ruins, and history Lough Mask (34 min) Sizable lake with pastoral scenery & a popular fishing scene, especially for brown trout. Brigit's Garden & Café (1 hr 1) Traditional teahouse ringed with pools, flowers & standing stones symbolising Celtic seasons. Glebe Stone Circle (4 min) Inchagoill (25 min) Saint patrick Ireland’s School of Falconry (12 min) Hawk and owls Ballymacgibbon Cairn (6 min) Corrib Cruises (5 min) The Guinness Tower (6 min) Pigeon Hole Cave (3 min) The Quiet Man Museum, Tours & Giftshop (1 min) Quaint reproduction house from the namesake film, plus set location tours & a souvenir shop. Western Way Trailhead (1 hr 11) Angling off a vast freshwater lake, plus hikes through a rugged landscape of hills, moors & bogs. Statue of John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara (1 min) Aughnanure Castle (57 min) Preserved 16th-century fortress with gargantuan fireplaces and a watchtower you can climb. Glengowla Mines, Oughterard (49 min) Tours of abandoned silver & lead mines on a farm, plus turf cutting & sheep herding demonstrations. |