If you're heading for the dramatic
walking country
of the mountains, or if you plan to base yourself at Clifden, the road to take from Galway is the N59 through Oughterard. It makes the easiest hitch and the most pleasant cycle ride from Galway, avoiding the boring strip development down to Spiddal and taking you instead along the shore of island-flecked
Lough Corrib
, past crumbling ruins. These include the main sixteenth-century O'Flaherty fortress of
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Ross Lake House Hotel is a wonderful Georgian house set in the magnificent wilderness of Connemara, Co. Galway, battleground of the O'Flahertys and the De Burgos (now Burkes) of ancient times. The splendid house stands serenely in its estate of woods and gardens beckoning the world weary with its ow... [More]