Colorful Connemara landscape in Ireland
by Pierre Leclerc Photography
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Colorful Connemara landscape in Ireland
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Pierre Leclerc Photography
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Photograph - Photography
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Colorful Connemara landscape in Ireland.
Connemara is my favorite area of Ireland, beautiful bare rolling hills that turn multicolored in Autumn. A great area for hiking and photography.
This photo was the winner of the seasonal RTE photo competition several years ago and was broadcasted on National TV. It is one of my favorite photo from my Irish collection.
The term Connemara is frequently used to describe all of County Galway west of Lough Corrib; some argue that this is incorrect. It is also used to describe the Gaeltacht (Irish-speaking areas) of western County Galway; again some argue that this too is inaccurate as some of these areas are outside of the traditional boundary of Connemara.[citation needed] Some also argue that it is not correct to say that Connemara's eastern boundary ends around Barna just on the outskirts of Galway City or at Maam Cross
"Connemara" derives from the tribal name Conmacne Mara, which designated a branch of the Conmacne, an early tribal grouping that had a number of branches located in different parts of Connacht. Since this particular branch of the Conmacne lived by the sea, they became known as the Conmacne Mara. (Sea in Irish is muir, genitive mara, hence "of the sea".) The area in the east of what is now Connemara was called Delbhna T�r Dh� Locha.
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