County Galway Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
county in Ireland
About County Galway
In Irish Galway isGaillimh, fromGaill, the word for outsiders or foreigners. It certainly draws the tourists, especially to Galway city, yet this county is home to a largegaeltacht, who speak Irish as their first language. Connemarais the scenic peninsula of western Galway. It has a barren windswept landscape, with grey granite mountains - of no great height, but prominent with sharp profiles. Between the mountains are gouged-out glaciated valleys and tracts of blanket bog with varied flora. Farming here even in the good years was a hand-to-mouth affair with potatoes grown on smallholdings, in tiny fields divided by drystone walls, and fishing in the merciless Atlantic. The coast is fractal, with multiple peninsulas and little islands, several of which are nowadays connected to the mainlan
County Galway Travel Guide Sections
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