"Around Killary Harbour" Top 5 Page for this destination County Mayo Travelogue by sabsi

Killary harbour is Ireland's only fjord. It's not exactly Norway but a real beauty still!!!! All these pictures are taken around Killary Harbour, mostly on the way from Delphi Adventure Centre towards Louisburgh.

Killary Harbour

I read that there's boattrips on Killary Harbour - and they give you a seasickness guarantee (Throw up and get your money back!). I think that's a bit strange because the water looks as rough as the lake in Dublin's St. Stephen's green. Not exactly a scary thought ;)

Killary Harbour and my favourite sign of the day

Oh an the film "The Field" was filmed here...but we didn't find the field ;)

Colm at Killary Harbour

Beautiful people in a beautiful landscape ;-)

Famine Memorial

I took this bit from the book McCarthy's Bar by Pete McCarthy to explain this place better:

The journey from Leenane to Louisburgh is one of the most dramatic stretches of road in the country. After passing through wild foothills as you skirt the north side of Killary Harbour, by the time you reach Delphi you are surrounded by some of the most spectacular mountains in Connemara. Heading north through the mountain pass that runs along the eastern edge of Doo Lough there's a stone monument at the side of the road. I pull the tank over on to worryingly boggy ground and walk back to read the inscription: "To commemorate the Hungry Poor who walked here in 1849 and walk the Third World today," it says. And suddenly I know where I am.

It was through this valley that more than 150 famine victims walked in the depths of that winter. In Westport they had been refused sustenance at the poorhouse until they had registered with the Poor Commissioners, who were fourteen miles away at Delphi House. In ferocious conditions they walked to Delphi, only to find that the commissioners were having dinner and would not see them. Dozens died in the snow in this beautiful but desolate place in the shadow of Ireland's holy mountain, Croagh Patrick.