Ballyvaughan, Ireland Travel Blogs

Of golf, cliffs and weather.
Sep 23, 2005

We've made reservations to play golf in Gort, just over the county line in Galway. It's very much a local club which is letting supporters play free today after 9:45 so John tees off alone at 9:30 and Marilynn plans to join him for the back nine. It's a ...

The Burren and northern Clare coastline
Sep 19, 2005

... it. Our descriptive tour will continue, and we'll send you to a site with our best photos after we get home. OK? Ballyvaughan is located at the edge of the Burren, a unique geological area scraped clear of soil during the ice age. Subsequent erosion has ...

The Burren
Jan 28, 2007 (26 photos)

Today, I went with the Mountaineering Club to the Burren on a 12 km hike through The Burren.  This hike was very different than anything I have hiked before, the landscape is all rocks, and large crevasses, and it was also many plateaus.  On ...

NYE in Co. Clare
Dec 30, 2006 (7 photos)

Ballyvaughan is lovely little place with some of the best scenery in the world, esp. in stormy weather. We rented 2 'cottages' with a thatch roof & a half door and all mod-cons! Lovely houses actually but the cottage badge is a bit twee. There were 13 ...

A quiet day in Ballyvaughan
Sep 22, 2005

... ), work on deleting and organizing photos, and relax. We walked the two blocks into our one street tiny town of Ballyvaughan to the Internet café and caught up on our travelpod entries, checked out the pretty Catholic church, shopped and found several ...

We explore Ballyvaughan
Sep 18, 2005

... to get lots of reading in...but we slept well and stayed warm under huge comforters at night. Ballyvaughan is convenient for exploring the central western part of Ireland, but the town is so small there isn't even an ATM or real grocery store. There is an ...

Travel day to Co. Clare
Sep 17, 2005

... an airport built nearby which can accommodate jumbo jets! He's a bit of a hero to them as well. So on past Galway to Ballyvaughan. Total driving time was 5.5 hours. Time to grocery shop and check in to our "Rent an Irish Cottage". As expected, it is a ...

Singing in the rain in Connemara
Sep 21, 2005

We had planned to have a home day, but the sun was out, and with rain forecast for the next two days, we decided to do a loop through Co. Galway. Large roads and many roundabouts took us around Galway City to Cong, where The Quiet Man, starring John Wayne ...

The Burren
Jan 29, 2007 (40 photos)

This Sunday I went with the Mountianeering Club to hike the Burren. I went with a group of 20 other students on a 12k hike (7.5 miles). We left at 10 am and arrived back at 8 pm (the burren is 1 hour away for Galway) . The Burren is like no other ...

Ballyvaghan
Sep 11, 2007

 

Aillwee Cave
Sep 23, 2009 (8 photos)

... . Apparently, bears also used to hibernate here. And it has been a very long time since bears actually lived in Ireland. Had a pretty interesting waterfall inside. This was also an interesting tour. They actually turned the lights out while we were in ...

Poulnabrone Dolmen
Sep 23, 2009 (11 photos)

An interesting portal tomb in the Burren dating back to 2500-2000 BC.

Lots of limestone...
Jul 25, 2009 (6 photos)

I'm not sure where we went from here, but we went through 'The Burren' area, which is such a change of landscape - limestone as far as the eye can see in some places!  See photos...

Corcomroe Abbey
Sep 23, 2009 (10 photos)

Another 12th century cistercian abbey.