Kildavnet Tower - Achill Island - County Mayo - Ireland
Tour de Kildavnet - Île d'Achill - Comté de Mayo - Irlande
Coordonnées GPS: 53°52'51.2N 9°56'45.3W
La tour de Kildavnet est située à 300 m du cimetière de Kildownet (voir vidéo Elle aurait été érigée au XVe siècle par le clan O'Malley, une illustre famille de l'île d'Achill.
Grace O'Malley aurait profité de l'emplacement stratégique de cette tour dans la baie de Clew pour s'enrichir en imposant des taxes aux navires qui passaient sur ses eaux, ce qui lui valut le titre de reine pirate.
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White Cliffs of Ashleam - Achill Island - County Mayo - Ireland
Baie d'Ashleam - Île d'Achill - Comté de Mayo - Irlande
Coordonnées GPS: 53°53'56.4N 9°59'50.0W
Quelques arrêts sont possibles en bordure de l'Atlantic Drive afin d'admirer la baie d'Ashleam.
Cette baie est en fait composée d'abruptes falaises rocheuses qui s'avancent dans l'océan. On peut y admirer également une belle petite plage de galets nichée au pied des falaises.
Et, oh surprise, des moutons... tachetés de rose, de bleu ... Des moutons qui s'affrontent pour une jolie brebis ...
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Landscape - Mulranny to Kildownet Cimetery - Achill Island - County Mayo - Ireland
Paysage - Mulranny jusqu'au cimetière de Kildownet - Île d'Achill - Comté de Mayo - Irlande
La route entre Mulranny et le cimetière de Kildownet offre de magnifiques points de vue. On y aperçoit de belles plages isolées et une multitude d'ilôts.
A certains endroits, la route est parsemée d'arbustes si denses qu'ils forment un muret présentant de magnifiques fleurs violettes.
Les moutons sont en grand nombre sur cette route étroite et sinueuse. On les retrouve fréquemment en plein milieu de la chaussée. La prudence est de mise.
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The Tower House at Kildavnet, known locally as Grace O’Malley’s Castle,
A walk round the tower.
Achill Island 2016 Ireland
Grace O' Mally Castle Carrickahowley, Mayo. by Drone.
Historical information outside Rockfleet Castle
Rockfleet Castle, or Carrickahowley Castle (Irish: Carraig an Chabhlaigh), is a tower house near Newport in County Mayo, Ireland. It was built in the mid-sixteenth century, and is most famously associated with Gráinne O'Malley, the pirate queen and chieftain of the clan O’Malley.
Rockfleet Castle has four floors and is over eighteen metres in height. It is open to the public; the key is available at the nearby farm. The castle was installed with a metal walkway in 2015, from its adjacent grassland surrounding to its door, due to the sheer inconvenience of accessing its entrance during high tides.
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Grace's Castle
A little tour of the O'Malley tower on Clare Island, Co. Mayo, Ireland. Grainne ni Mhaille, English Grace O'Malley, was known as The Pirate Queen, as a result of her rather fearsome reputation during the 1500s.
Achill Island
Some photos taken around Achill Island during the past few summers with music by Alan Silvestri and Roque Banos with the voice of Rhonda Featherman.
Achill - Kildownet
Shot using a DJI Mavic Pro in July and August 2017
Rockfleet (Carrickahowley) Castle - County Mayo - Ireland
Château de Rockfleet (Carrickahowley) - Comté de Mayo - Irlande
Coordonnées GPS: 53°53'45.7N 9°37'37.6W
Le château de Rockfleet (connu également sous le nom de
Carrickahowley), est une tour fortifiée de 4 étages bâtie au milieu du XVIe siècle.
D'une hauteur de 18 mètres, il a été restauré au milieu du XXe siècle. Il est situé sur les rives de la baie de Clew dans le comté de Mayo.
Celui-ci a appartenu jadis à Richard Burke qui a dû le céder, à son divorce, à son ancienne épouse Grace O'Malley, une célèbre pirate irlandaise.
Il semblerait qu'il est possible de visiter l'intérieur du château. En ce qui nous concerne, la porte était fermée à clé lorsque nous y sommes allés.
Cependant, après des recherches sur le net, j'ai cru comprendre que l'on pouvait se procurer la clé à une ferme située à proximité du château.
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Carrickahowley Castle - County Mayo - Ireland
Carrickahowley Castle. A random small castle I found while driving down the road. Its got character lol. Enjoy!
Rockfleet Castle or Carraigahowley Castle (Carraig-an-Cabhlaigh) is a tower house 1km northwest from Newport. It was built in the mid 16th century, and is renowned for its links with the legendary Grainne ni Mhaille, Grace O'Malley, the pirate queen and chieftain of the clan O'Malley. It is one of five along the shores of Clew Bay that are associated with Grace O'Malley. Legend has it that she received her nickname Grainuaile, which came from Gaelic “Gráinne Mhaol” Mhaol meaning bald, by cutting her own hair so she could join her father on a trading expedition to Spain. Her father had refused to let the young Grainne accompany him citing that her long hair would get caught in the ships ropes. She lived in the castle after she married her second husband Sir Richard Burke (Richard the Iron, 'Iron Dick') in 1566, whom she had married on the understanding that after one year either could divorce the other. Tradition maintains that, at the end of the years’ duration, she locked him out of his castle and, from the ramparts, shouted down “Richard Bourke I divorce thee”. Thereafter, the castle would be indelibly linked with her legend, and she would live here. Grace expanded her clan's efforts from trade to piracy. She then set up her own army and had a fleet of privateers, with which she harried the coastal trade from her island, and extracted pilotage fees and cargo levies from all the passing shipping until she had a virtual monopoly on the sea trade of the west coast of Ireland. So fearless was she that when she was shut out of Howth Castle because his Lordship was having dinner, she kidnapped his son, only restoring him to his family when she was assured that the doors would always be kept open at mealtimes, a custom maintained to this day. It is known that Rockfleet Castle remained in the possession of Grainne until her death in this Castle in 1603. Today she is buried at her home on Clare Island and the Castle remained in the O'Malley Clan for centuries to follow.
Rockfleet Castle has four floors and is over 18m in height. There are some interesting features in the castle. The middle two floors are of wood and the top floor is stone flagged, the barrel vaulted ceiling is a fine example of this construction technique. The stone floor may have been included here as a fire safety device. A wooden ladder is used to access the second floor and from there to the top there is a spiral stone stairway.
Today it is freely open to the public.
Grainne Uaile Castle, Clare Island, Co. Mayo. July 14th 2013
via YouTube Capture
Chris O Grady: Clare Island Castle
Chris O Grady talks about Grainne Uaille's Clare Island castle. 18.8.2012
Oyster fishing in Clew Bay in County Mayo, Ireland
Dredging for native oysters (Ostrea Edulis) in Clew Bay, County Mayo, Ireland.
The natural native flat oyster beds in Clew Bay are of both national and international importance. They are self-seeding and are one of only nine such natural oyster beds in the country.
With the exception of a privately owned bed at Collenmore Island, the Clew Bay Oyster Co-operative Society Ltd. has managed the native oyster beds in Clew Bay for the past 24 years.
The Co-op. was granted an Oyster Fishery Order in 1979 and since then has managed the fishing season in November to protect the oyster stocks.
Belleek Forest Park, Ballina Co. Mayo Ireland June 2017
The most beautiful Forest in Mayo.
Guided Walking Holidays Ireland - The Mullet Peninsula, Co. Mayo
Tourism Pure Walking Holidays offers guided walking holidays in the West of Ireland. Here is the beautiful, wild Mullet Peninsula of north-west Co. Mayo. More on walking tours in Ireland at
Moore Hall, Co. Mayo, Ireland
The house and estate of George Henry Moore and family, is situated to the south of the village Carnacon in the barony of Carra, County Mayo in a karst limestone landscape
Rockfleet Castle
Rockfleet Castle outside Newport, Co. Mayo, Ireland. 03.09.2014
Rockfleet Castle, or Carrickahowley Castle (Irish: Carraig an Chabhlaigh), is a tower house near Newport in County Mayo, Ireland. It was built in the mid-sixteenth century, and is most famously associated with Gráinne O'Malley, the pirate queen and chieftain of the clan O’Malley.
Rockfleet Castle has four floors and is over eighteen metres in height. It can be open to the public year round. If the huge doorhandle on the heavy wooden door cannot be opened, the key can be borrowed and returned to the nearby farm. The tower house castle is built in the sea and at high tide the water makes it very difficult to get into or out of the door without getting wet.
Roadtrip through Ireland Part 3: Achill Island & Clare Island
In Summer 2017 we visited Ireland again. We went from Dublin up to the North along the coast down to Achill Island and Connemara.
Watch the third part and our visits along Achill Island and to Clare Island.
Music rights and credits:
«Ordinary Day» by the beloved Dolores O'Riordan:
Her amazing and unforgettable discography:
Death Scene II
shes a reindeer.