Inishmore Off The Beaten Path

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Kilfenora is a tiny village of just a few houses and an oversized church, close to Doolin ( one of the places, where you may take the ferry to the Aran Islands. Kilfenora is my favorite place in the Burren for the very special Celtic Cross on my picture: the Doorty Cross, showing a bishop and 2 other people. Kilfenora has also quite a funny status inside the catholic church, because that small parish is at the same time an episcopate and their bishop is the pope - don't ask me, how this works, it is just a heritage of the 12th century that was never changed since...
On my other pictures about the church in Kilfenora you may see some of the very few great works of art that are still left over after the church had been destroyed several times.
At the small cemetery around the old cathedral-ruins there were once 7 high-crosses - see another in my pictures !
You may enter the cemetery freely and without restrictions during the day !
Kilfenora is a small village in the Burren, just a few Km from Doolin, where you take the ferry to the Aran Islands - 7km south-east of Lisdoonvarna : take road R476 !

The cliffs near the cashel of Dun Aengus and Dun Dubhchathair (black fort) are between 80 and 90 metres high. You see a lot of people looking into the dept of the ocean. I have a fear of heights, but at the black fort I managed to get down on my belly and looked over the edge.

Be careful when you do this and make sure that this is not an overhanging cliff that can give way beneath you.

When you ride or walk in the direction of Dùn Aengus you will see after an half hour a small white sand beach. It was a beautiful sunny day and that brought many people to this lovely beach to swim or to sunbath. But there we were only hear for one day and didn’t bring our swimsuit we just watched them for a moment and then we rode further to the west.

If you have time, chill out on this beach.

When we arrived, our battle plan was to make a big distance between us and the rest of the tourist (as if we can forget that we are tourists ourselves). So we decided to ride towards the most western point to have our picnic lunch. We found there absolute peace, the shout of the seagulls was accompanied by the burning rays of the sun.

We sat down next to the small jetty, eat our sandwich and saw 2 other people who had the same idea as us. You have a good view on Brannock Island and you can see the lighthouse on Rock Island.

But here you can see the difference in landscape from Inishmore, the meadows at this side are almost all rocks with here and there green grass and all is walled in. You see the landscape change before your eyes driving towards this place.

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After some rainy days you will easily find washing lines allover the island, maybe hidden behind a thick stone wall, in case the high winds would take the clothes away to the continent!