Connemara, County Galway

Connemara County Galway

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Connemara, situated at the very edge of Europe, on the west coast of Ireland, is one of the most beautiful, unspoiled places you will find. The area has a strong association with traditional Irish culture and contains a major part of the Connacht Irish-speaking Gaeltacht, which is a key part of the identity of the region and is the largest Gaeltacht in the country.

Connemara, County Galway

The main town of Connemara is Clifden. The area around the town is rich with megalithic tombs. The famous “Connemara Green marble” is found outcropping along a line between Streamstown and Lissoughter. It was a trade treasure used by the inhabitants of prehistoric time. It continues to be of great value today. It is available in large dimensional slabs suitable for buildings as well as for smaller pieces of jewelry. It is used for the pendant for the Chief Scout’s Award, the highest award in Scouting Ireland.

Connemara was drastically depopulated during the Great Famine in the late 1840s, with the lands of the Anglo-Irish Martin family being greatly affected and the bankrupted landlord being forced to auction off the estate in 1849.

As that year of 1847 had been the worst of several consecutive years of famine, it was to be understood that those missing tenants had abandoned their holdings to crowd into the workhouses or the emigrant ships to the New World, or they were dead; in any case, they no longer infested the ground, which was left as a blank canvas on which Capital could paint a fair and profitable landscape.

The first transatlantic flight, piloted by Alcock and Brown, landed in Clifden in 1919.

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