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Monastery
Kylemore Abbey
Victorian castle from 1871 on the lakeshore, at the foot of the mountain, where Benedictine nuns have lived since 1920, with the neo-Gothic church and a 2.4-hectare walled garden.
Galway · Ireland
Clifden
In the destination Galway and Connemara.
In the photo: Clifden
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The city
What to expect from Clifden.
Clifden is Connemara’s main town, founded in 1812 on an Atlantic inlet, with two church towers, streets of pubs and colourful shops and the Twelve Bens mountains in the background. It is the base for the Sky Road, the coastal high road, for Connemara National Park and for Kylemore Abbey, 18 km away.
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What to see in Clifden
Park
Connemara National Park
National park of about 3,000 hectares in Letterfrack, with mountains, bogs, Connemara ponies and the Diamond Hill trails, from where you can see the coast, the islands and Kylemore Abbey.
Viewpoint
Sky Road
The road that leaves Clifden and climbs the peninsula to the west, about 16 km of high views over the bay, the islands, the Atlantic and the ruins of the Castelo de Clifden.