From our base in Calermorris, Mayo, we visited
- Turlough Park Manor,
- Cong, where The Quiet Man was filmed in 1951...
and they are still dining out on it even now!
- Cong is on the shores of Lough Corrib, (which is largely in Galway)
- Westport
Turlough Manor and gardens
Turlough_Round Tower about 800 years old
Turlough Park Manor gardens_dahlia beds
Turlough Manor_flower garden
Turlough Manor detail
Turlough Manor_weather cock
Lough Corrib_boat detail
Ashford Castle from Lough Corrib
Lough Corrib_Ashford Castle hotel_13th century_former Guinness family home
Lough Corrib_Ashford Castle Hotel
Lough Corrib_Ashford Castle Hotel main tower
Lough Corrib_Ashford Castle Hotel round tower
Lough Corrib_Ashford Castle Hotel bridge
Lough Corrib_swan
Mayo_Galway border at Cong
Cong Abbey
Cong Abbey ruined windows
Cong Abbey detail
Cong Abbey ruins
Cong Abbey pillar detail
Cong_Stone Cross from coach
Cong Cross writing
Cong_John Wayne_Maureen O'Hara statue from The Quiet Man 1951 film
Cong sidestreet
Cong high street
Cong_three Black Headed gulls
Westport_base of St Patricks statue
Westport_St Patrick
Westport_town clock
Westport clocktower base
Claremorris_Green post box Edward VII
Claremorris_St Colmans church
Claremorris_Library clock tower (former church)
Claremorris_main street
Claremorris_Lough Clare with greylag geese and ducks
Westport
Westport_Bridge over Carrowbeg river
Westport_flower basket and mallard on Carrowbeg river
Knock airport_Airbus detail
Knock West of Ireland airport_Jesus statue from plane