Green Marble Tours Connemara
I was doing some family history and found out that my great great great grandfather had emigrated from Connemara to Nebraska and I had wanted to come to Ireland and to see where he had come from. But we wanted to something a little bit different, so we contacted Wilma at green marble tours and while it was a package deal, she was able to tailor it to us. One of the things that we found was that each day really was unique and different, from mountainous landscapes to bog and heather, watherfalls and beautiful lakes, all kinds of wildlife. Neither my wife or I are strong cyclists and we found that we never struggled any of the days that we cycled, we always woke up the next day ready for another day. We were really looking for a unique experience and what we found was that the Green Marble Tours slogan really is true, that it was a trip as unique as we were! greenmarblecycletours.com info@greenmarbletours.com +353 87 9725332
Connemara Marble Workshop - Dublin, Ireland
Some of National Geographic Store's gifts feature a uniquely Irish material—a mottled green marble found only in Connemara the west. Three generations of the Walsh family have quarried this marble at Lissoughter and handcrafted jewelry, décor, and architectural details in their Dublin workshop. Take a tour of their shop.
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Co Clare and Co Galway, including Galway and Connemara countryside, Ireland - 9/2017
We spent two days in Galway and Connemara. First day we drove through the Burren in the rain and watched the Burren Birds of Prey show at Ailwee Caves. The Burren is a rocky, karst landscape made of soluble rocks such as limestone, dolomite, and gypsum and has some caves throughout.
Next day we drove through the Connemara countryside. It is famous for its source of green marble. Connemara was hard hit by the famine of 1846-1849. The British paid the Irish 1 cent/day to build rock walls vertically up the mountains--called famine walls. Over 1/3 of the Irish population either died or emigrated out of Ireland during this time that the Irish called, The Great Hunger.
We took a Killary Fjord cruise with lunch. We saw boats harvesting mussels. We visited Kylemore Abbey-once known as Kylemore Castle. It was purchased by Benedictine Nuns in 1920 when they fled Flanders during WWI. They made the castle into a boarding and day school for girls, which eventually closed in 2010. It is still owned and used by the nuns today.
Back in Galway we attended a music and dance show, Trad on the Prom in the evening. The show featured dancers and musicians from Lord of the Dance.
0:04 The Burren
2:20 lunch in Balleyvaughen
2:44 Galway
3:42 Connemara and road from Galway through country getting there
4:53 Killary Fjord boat ride
5:31 Kylemore Abbey
Galway, Ireland, one of the most chilled out spots in Western Europe
In this short video, speaker/author Charlie Adams takes you to Galway and to Connemara Marble. Galway City is a thriving, bohemian, cultural city on the western coast of Ireland. Along with being a popular seaside destination with beautiful beaches and long winding promenade, it also has a buzzing cosmopolitan city centre, which you will see. The city is a joy to explore with its labyrinthine cobbled streets, colourful shop facades and busy café/ bar culture.
Connemara Marble is exclusively found on the west coast of Ireland and is from the Precambrian Period over 600 million years ago. This lustrous stone has a wide range of colors including pale yellow, variations of light green to dark green and aspects of grey and white. Connemara Marble is quarried for jewelry, ornamental products, religious items and more.
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Since 2006 Charlie has hosted group travel trips for Edgerton's Travel, where he shares inspirational stories and humor along the way. He also produces a 60 minute DVD documentary for travelers. Here on youtube, he shares short clips from the documentaries to show you places that you may want to visit or return to one day. For more information on Charlie's motivational presentations and his group trips you can go to
Connemara National Park & Visitor Centre in Galway, Ireland
Connemara National Park occupies nearly 3000 hectares and is located in the very western part of County Galway. It is a great place from which to experience the rugged yet beautiful scenery and landscapes of Ireland.
The Park Visitor Centre is based out of Letterfrack which is only a few miles from the Atlantic coast, just about as far west as you can go in Ireland. Located just 15km from Clifden, 53km from Westport and 82km from Galway City the park is best visited by car or tour bus although there are some public bus services available. The Visitor Centre is open from March through October while the park grounds are open throughout the year.
The Visitor Centre offers an exhibition and information desk, a Cafe and a Playground for the kids. Nearby Diamond Hill can be climbed along four different walking trails. Free Connemara Pony Rides are occasionally available but be sure to check the schedule so you arrive when this free service is provided.
The park makes up only part of the overall region known as Connemara which covers much of Galway and part of Mayo. Several days could easily be spent exploring the towns and villages of this picturesque location. Hikers and explorers will certainly enjoy the parklands, lakes and forests. Connemara includes the towns of Clifden and Oughterard and includes between 20,000 to 24,000 native Irish speakers in the region making it the largest Irish speaking Gaeltacht in the country. Kylemore Abbey is one of the most notable tourist attractions in the County while fans of the film 'The Quiet Man' will enjoy visiting nearby Cong, where the movie was shot.
A very good tip when planning your visit to Connemara or indeed just about any rural location in Ireland, is to time your visit with a festival event. Just about every town in Ireland has a festival during the year when streets are closed off, musicians play into the small hours and traders display their wares and stalls.
Remember, a lot of the villages you encounter in Connemara will be very small indeed, some only having a population of a few hundred people, or even less. Festivals bring a lot of people into these villages and there are festivals for just about everything!
Connemara is a fantastic place to explore and you could spend an entire week visiting Galway. The nearby Burren and Bunratty Castle, Oughterard, Kylemore Abbey, Clifden and the Connemara National Park are all on the doorstep of Galway city which makes a great base from which to travel the western part of Ireland.
Situated in the West of Ireland in County Galway, Connemara National Park covers scenic mountains, expanses of bogs, heaths, grasslands and woodlands. Some of the park's mountains, namely Benbaun, Bencullagh, Benbrack and Muckanaght, are part of the famous Twelve Bens or Beanna Beola range.
A number of walking trails beginning at the Visitor Centre offer walkers a variety of scenic routes and nature trails through the park. Stunning vistas from the 400 metre high Diamond Hill include the distant islands of Inishbofin, Inishturk and Inishshark, and the turreted Kylemore Abbey. The park is also home to Connemara ponies, red deer and an enormous variety of bird-life, including skylarks, stonechats and peregrine falcons.
Other remnants of times past include ruined houses, a disused lime kiln, old sheep pens, an ice house, ancient walls and Tobar Mweelin, a well which was formerly used to supply water to Kylemore Castle.
The Visitor Centre features include exhibitions, the ‘Man and the landscape’ multi-lingual audio visual show and tea room (seasonal). Entrance to the Visitor Centre is free of charge. A summer programme of guided walks and special events for younger visitors are also available at the Visitor Centre. Connemara is one of six such national parks in Ireland.
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Galway, The Burren & West Coast Biking Trip
A trip through Ireland on the bikes to run in Kivi's newly rebuilt BMW R80RT engine. The trip took in the province of Ulster to Sligo, Galway and Co. Clare, visiting; Gosford, Marble Arch Caves, Strandhill, Dungaire Castle, Galway, The Burren and Poulnabrone Dolmen.
Cycling in Connemara, Ireland.
Ireland is a great destination for cycle touring...if you can get the weather for it! The Wild Atlantic Way on the west coast offers wild landscape, wild weather and wild people!
For this trip we travelled lighter than usual, to allow us to soak up the beauty of our surroundings. We cycled a loop from Maam Cross, to Leenaun, by the beautiful Killary Fjord and on towards Clifden. It took us three easy days to do the loop, you could probably do it in one day if you didn't stop at every pub and cafe along the way!
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Tour de Connemara 2018
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Dingle, Ireland, shops, pubs, restaurants and streets
Dingle, Ireland is a town of many charms, known for quality food and restaurants, interesting shops and galleries, a friendly dolphin and vibrant street life. We bring you into some of the best the shops, pubs and restaurants of town.
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Ireland July 2014 - Day Two- Visit to the Connemara Marble Factory
Visit to Connemara Marble Factory
Ireland road to Fanore
Driving along the west coast north to Fanore
Connemara Marble 4 Panel Silver Pendant - CONN104
A Beautiful Combination of Sterling Silver and 4 Connemara marble stones – 2 light stones and 2 dark curving around each other and intertwined on a silver chain.
Turn the pendant around to see the meaningful words “Love Life Health and Luck “ etched on the silver.
For three generations, the Walsh family have worked the beautiful, green marble that is unique to Connemara in the West of Ireland. The marble is crafted and finished at the family's workshop in Dublin. Traditional and modern tools are used to create products that capture the rare beauty of Connemara Marble. The quarry at Lissoughter in the Connemara Mountains in County Galway, Ireland first opened in the 19th century. In 1903, King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra visited it during the Royal Tour of Connemara. Today, the marble of Connemara can be found in the world's great monuments. In the halls of Trinity College Dublin, on the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, in Kensington Palace and in some of America's finest buildings
Connemara Irish Marble is a natural stone which is found only in the west of Ireland, no 2 pieces will ever be the same and each will be unique to you. The colour ranges from light to dark green and will vary from the image shown on the website however with earrings we will do our utmost best to keep the colour matched within each pair.
Treasures Found...visiting relatives in Connemara, Ireland
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Galway XPOSED Media Ireland Part II
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William Butler Yeats · Coole Park And Ballylee -extract-
Coole Park And Ballylee (extract)
Another emblem there! That stormy white
But seems a concentration of the sky;
And, like the soul, it sails into the sight
And in the morning's gone, no man knows why;
And is so lovely that it sets to right
What knowledge or its lack had set awry,
So atrogantly pure, a child might think
It can be murdered with a spot of ink.
Sound of a stick upon the floor, a sound
From somebody that toils from chair to chair;
Beloved books that famous hands have bound,
Old marble heads, old pictures everywhere;
Great rooms where travelled men and children found
Content or joy; a last inheritor
Where none has reigned that lacked a name and fame
Or out of folly into folly came.
Coole Park ve Ballylee
(...)
Orada bir simge! Göğün yoğunlaşmasından
Başka bir şey değil o fırtınalı beyazlık;
Ve ruh gibi o da beliriyor gözler önünde,
Sonra, kim bilir neden, sabahla kayboluyor;
Ve o kadar güzel ki, daha önce bilginin
Ya da bilgisizliğin çarpıttığı ne varsa düzeltiyor,
O kadar temiz ki, düşüncesiz bir çocuk
Bir adamla mürekkeple onu yok etmeye kalkışabilir.
Yerde bir bastonun sesi, sandalyeden
Sandalyeye zorla yürüyen birinin sesi;
Ünlü ustaların ciltlediği o sevgili kitaplar,
Her yerde mermer başlar ve asılı resimler;
Gezmiş görmüş insanlarla çocuklarının
Mutluluğu taktıkları geniş odalar
Her biri adı sanı bilinen
Ve çılgınlıktan çılgınlığa koşmayan
O soylu kişilerin son mirasçısı.
(...)
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St. Patrick's Day Parade - La folla in arrivo!
Alcune immagini di quante persone hanno assistito alla parata di St. Patrick il 17 marzo 2011 - Visuale di Dame street (Dublin 2).