Killary Fjord: The Long Inlet Under Mweelrea
Galway, Ireland
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Killary Fjord: The Long Inlet Under Mweelrea
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Killary is the best known of Ireland's fjords — a 16km glacial inlet along the Galway–Mayo border, over 40 metres deep in the middle, narrow and walled by mountains that go straight into the water. Mweelrea, the highest in Connacht, rises off the northern shore. At the head of it near Leenaun the Erriff River comes down in Aasleagh Falls. The Green Road along the southern shore is nine kilometres of famine-relief track between Leenaun and Rosroe, past the ruins of the lost hamlet of Foher, and from a kayak on the water the scale of the place finally makes sense.
Required Activities
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of 4
Kayak on Killary Fjord, the 16km glacial inlet between Galway and Mayo
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of 4
Walk to Aasleagh Falls on the Erriff River, where it tumbles into the head of the fjord near Leenaun
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of 4
Walk the Green Road along Killary's southern shore, past the ruins of Foher — rough going on a bike
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of 4
Look across the fjord to Mweelrea, Connacht's highest mountain, rising straight from the water
Kayak on Killary Fjord, the 16km glacial inlet between Galway and Mayo
Walk to Aasleagh Falls on the Erriff River, where it tumbles into the head of the fjord near Leenaun
Walk the Green Road along Killary's southern shore, past the ruins of Foher — rough going on a bike
Look across the fjord to Mweelrea, Connacht's highest mountain, rising straight from the water
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