CONG , a few miles south of Ballinrobe, lies on the narrow spit of land that divides Lough Mask from Lough Corrib at the point where the dramatically mountainous country of Connemara to the west gives way to the flat and fertile farmland that makes up the east of County Mayo. A picture-book pretty village that caters for plenty of tourists, it's also the site of the ruined Cong Abbey , which was founded in 1128 for the Augustinians by Turlough O'Connor, King of Irel... [More]