Posts tagged John D'Arcy
Clifden
Clifden

In May 2012, Clifden marked the bicentenary of its founding with a week-long festival of talks, heritage walks, concerts, and street entertainment as well as a traditional boat regatta. The main focus of the celebrations was to honour the town’s founder, John D’Arcy...

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AdventureLucy Mashburn2016 Issue, Clifden, County Galway, John D'Arcy, Connemara, Clifden Castle, Sky Road, Ireland, Owenglin River, Galway Road, The Great Famine, Hyacinth D'Arcy, Eyre family of Bath, Father James Nugent, James H. Tuke, Clifden at Derrygimlagh, Cape Breton, Marconi Company, Emigrating, Great War, Civil War, War of Independence, Pilot Captain John Alock, Navigator Lieutenant Arthur Whitten Brown, Irish Free State, Connemara Life
To the End of the Line
To the End of the Line

The original trail route from Clifden to Galway meanders through some of the most spectacular scenery western Ireland has to offer, but the polarising isolation of Connemara’s many lakes, rivers, and mountain ranges spurred the need to build the original railway track in 1891.

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