Southern Ireland Connemarra Coast Day 2 2008

The rainy day started with a double rainbow as we headed out for a Connemarra excursion where the Galway mountains dropped down to the coast and little white washed, thatched roofed cottages were scattered over this land of mountains, rivers and brooks.
Gaellic is definitely spoken here. A stop at a marble factory revealed different colors of marble from jade green, white, sepia and rose to black marble dating 200 million years old.

after seeing a double rainbow, our Connemarra Excursion viewed the Galway mountains dropping down to the coast with little white washed, thatched roof cottages scattered over the countryside.
Gaellic is definitely spoken here. Our first stop was the Connemarra Marble Factory where we observed different colors from jade green, white, sepia and rose to black marble dating to the pre-Cambrian era, over 200 million years ago.
Before returning to our hotel, we spent several hours at Kylemore Abbey, a castellated neo gothic mansion. after a photo stop at the “Quiet Man” (John
Wayne) cottage.

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