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Ballyvaughan Slideshow
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Hylands Burren Hotel Ballyvaughan
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Ballyvaughan
Travel Blogs from Ballyvaughan, Ireland
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From a dizzy hight
Our route today: Killorgran, Milltown, Castemaine, Tralee, Listowel, Kilrush, Cliffs of Moher, Ballyvaughan. We will start our day again with a lesson in Gealic " Marbh le tae agus marbh gan e" - some people are never satisfied. Maybe this this motivate ...
The Burren
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
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 ...
Raylene's Dingle
... relaxing evening. When we got back to the hotel, however, Raylene realised that she had been having too much fun in Ireland and had lost track of the days meaning we had over stayed in Killarney and should be spending tonight in Ballyvaugn 2 and a ...
The Burren
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 ...
Menlo Castle
I was not planning on this trip to the castle but it just happened. Last night one of you friends talked about a Castle that they saw up the river aways right near the NUI Galway University. So, Mike and I went to check it out today but the castle ended ...
Burren and sea
We drove through the Burren area, via a coast route. As the name implies, it's a barren and rocky place, though the way we took added a bit more plant life than if you go further inland. Still, it was rocky and somewhat bleak, with just hard ...
Of golf, cliffs and weather.
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
... 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 ...
A quiet day in Ballyvaughan
... wonderful), 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 ...
We explore Ballyvaughan
... going 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 ...
Travel day to Co. Clare
... 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 ...
Singing in the rain in Connemara
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 ...
Aillwee Cave
... journey. 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 ...
Day Two
After a restful sleep we headed toward County Galway. The trip went fast due to the new and improved highway system. Then we ventured off the main roads and headed into the Burren in search of the Poulnabrone dolmen. The Burren region is often described ...
Dec 15, 2009
Ice Cold West
... woman at the surprise said to go, not where she meant us to go. So back down the corkscrew and almost back to Ballyvaughan, then a right turn to Corofin. This made more sense, because David and I were in Corofin in 2002 for my birthday and we ...
The GPS gets fired
... the castle, we made our way to another scenic coastal road south of Galway to find some accommodation. We ended up stopping in Ballyvaughan and found some accommodation through the local pub, but the accommodation was a 2 minute drive up the road in a ...
Ballyvaughan and The Burren, County Clare
... rental car by 8:00-ish. Let's see now, which dangerous, narrow, nerve-wracking road should we take north to Ballyvaughan to meet Shane (pronounced Shawn) Connolly, who will be our professional guide over this moonscape of a place called the ...
The Burren
From the Galway Bay we turned south to cross the Burren, a wild treeless rocky landscape, still green from the wet climate. Back to Ennis then, and to bed, hopeful we would be receiving our two suitcases in the morning, so we could ...
Travel
... is Irish bacon). And I brought almond flour bread that I baked in Santa Fe, but there isn't ghee. We arrived in Ballyvaughan around 1:30 and divided up the bedrooms, and waited for contact from Grandma Meryl and the Umaliptas who were out for the ...
Lots of limestone...
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 ...
Beaches
... were very helpful; this was my first restaurant experience in Ireland. And the sauce was good. So remember L'Arco in Ballyvaughan. But all of the desserts were dairy so I sat there in a state of dessert-envy while everyone had cheesecake ...
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