Monday, 16 June 2014
Tuesday, 15 April 2014
Tour de Conamara — Cycling Event in Connemara Ireland
Tour de Conamara — Cycling Event in Connemara Ireland
Tour de Conamara — Cycling Event in Connemara Ireland
25% discount to all participants of the Tour de Conamara & 10% to supporters. Advance booking required.
Thursday, 3 April 2014
Clifden ecoCampsite Awarded Gold Standard in Ecotourism
Clifden ecoCampsite Awarded Gold Standard in Ecotourism
Clifden ecoCampsite are delighted to have achieved a Gold Standard Award by Ecotourism Ireland. Ecotourism Ireland is one of the first eco labels in Europe to be recognized by the Global Sustainable Tourism Council.
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Tuesday, 25 March 2014
Clifden Campsite Bans one-time-use Plastic Bottles
Our ecoCampsite boasts an excellent private supply of ISO quality approved, crystal clear, sterlized, spring water. Extracted from our sources beneath protected organic sand bearing soil & delivered fresh on demand to all fixtures throughout.
Clifden ecoCampsite no longer accepts single use plastic water bottles at its ecoCamping Park. We have taken the decision to ban single use plastic water bottles from our campsite!
Tuesday, 18 March 2014
Discover Ireland ecoCamping
Our eco Beach Camping & Caravanning Park is situated on the shores of the beautiful 'Wild Atlantic Way' at the estuary of Streamstown Bay. Unique to the park is an ecosystem called 'Machair', listed as a priority habitat in Ireland under the EU Habitats Directive.
This is a highly specialized & complex sand dune habitat system that is confined globally to the north West Coast of Ireland & Scotland. It comprises a flat or gently undulating sandy plain that develops in an oceanic location with a cool, moist climate resulting in rich bio-diversity.
To date eight species of bumblebee occupy this Machair habitat, additionally the ecosystem borders the West Connacht SAC. These are marine habitats which are important for Bottlenose Dolphins that frequent these shores. Seven Natura sites are within a 5 km radius of our campsite with Natura 2000 being a European network of important ecological sites.
The geology along the beaches from the campsite to Omey Island is quite impressive, providing an outstanding opportunity to see what happens deep inside the Earth's crust when magma rises into it & volcanoes erupt at the surface. These rock outcrops are the best examples seen anywhere in Europe & are a listed site.
Friday, 7 March 2014
Clifden Electric Bikes - eBikes Clifden
Clifden ecoBeach - eBikes Clifden
Clifden Electric Bikes - eBikes Clifden - New for the 2014 season eBike & sBike rental with Free car parking. Located just 10 minutes from Clifden on the Wild Atlantic Way with designated bike routes on its door step. These routes offer the best experience in cycle tours of Connemara.:)
Clifden Electric Bikes - eBikes Clifden - New for the 2014 season eBike & sBike rental with Free car parking. Located just 10 minutes from Clifden on the Wild Atlantic Way with designated bike routes on its door step. These routes offer the best experience in cycle tours of Connemara.:)
Saturday, 8 February 2014
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Friday, 7 February 2014
Wednesday, 5 February 2014
Storms expose archaeology on Omey island off Connemara on Wild Atlantic Way
Storms expose archaeology on Omey island off Connemara on Wild Atlantic Way
| Posted on February 5, 2014 at 4:50 AM |
Storms expose archaeology on Omey island off Connemara
Midden sites among coastal features damaged from Kerry to Donegal
Archaeologist Michael Gibbons at the area on Omey Island where prehistoric remains were revealed by damage caused by the Atlantic storms.
Photograph: Joe O’Shaughnessy
Destruction wreaked along Connacht’s coastline in the recent storms has exposed archaeology dating back to the Neolithic period on Connemara’s Omey island. Large linear archaeological deposits of up to a metre thick have been exposed on the western and northern shorelines of the tidal island off Claddaghduff.
Two sets of medieval burial sites, traces of sunken dwellings and parts of a Neolithic bog, which had been covered over millenniums by shifting sands, have been revealed.
Clifden-based archaeologist Michael Gibbons has classified the weather impact on Omey as “spectacular”, but says that many important archaeological features, such as midden deposits, have been destroyed along the Atlantic rim in the “severe beating of Connacht’s coastal dunes” since mid-December.
Kitchen middens, or shell heaps, are ancient waste repositories which offer invaluable clues about diet and lifestyle of our predecessors.
Out on Omey in recent days, as winds and swell began to ease, Mr Gibbons confirmed that sand-cliff sections up to 100 metres long had revealed the archaeological deposits.
The burial sites now visible were part of a medieval settlement excavated in the 1990s by Prof Tadhg O’Keeffe of University College Dublin, when an earlier storm revealed traces of a monastic enclosure, he said.
The sunken houses of which there are traces date from the 18th and 19th centuries, while the churning up of an ancient bog by recent tidal surges has turned blue sea to brown. Mr Gibbons estimates the bog, at the base of the sand cliffs, to be at least 6,000 years old.
Féichin Mulkerrin, who works for the Office of Public Works, said middens on Omey were affected. Twenty metres of sand was dislodged in the swell on the northwest, while the sea came right up to the gate of the new graveyard. “We haven’t had tides this high since 1991 and previous to that in 1963, and it was the series of tides that really made an impact, affecting all of the islands,” Mr Mulkerrin said.
Midden deposits extending from inner Galway Bay, up by Dog’s Bay near Roundstone to Mulrany in Mayo were lost, with one of the oldest in Connacht, a late Mesolithic midden site on the Renvyle peninsula, also being a casualty.
Cromwell’s fort on Inishbofin was hit, according to Mary Lavelle of D’Arcy’s Orchard on the island’s east end. “On the same night that we lost the harbour light, a lump was taken out of the fort on the harbour side,”she told The Irish Times.
On neighbouring Inishark, which the last 24 residents were forced to quit in October 1960, there was evidence that the graveyard close to shoreline was damaged, Ms Lavelle said.
In the Ballyconneely area of Connemara, the “bawn wall”, or enclosure around Bunowen castle, was undermined by the sea swell. Bawnmore is best known as a former home of Grace O’Malley, who married Dónal an Chogaidh O’Flaherty there in 1546.
“The biggest damage has to be the whole system of coastal midden sites, which may also be affected on the Donegal and Mayo coasts and which contain pottery, seeds, charcoal and other evidence of coastal settlement,” he says.
In Kerry, the wreck of the Sunbeam lying on Rossbeigh beach was lifted in the storms, prompting a court application for protection by the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht. The ship, built in 1860, foundered in 1903; is a national monument as it is more than 100 years old.
The department said it had received a number of reports of damage to monuments on the west and south coasts and two reports of very minor damage to State monuments in the east. It said was in “ongoing contact” with regional staff and partners in the heritage sector, including the Office of Public Works and local authorities in the most affected areas, to identify the full extent of the damage to archaeology.
However it would be a number of weeks before the full scale of it became apparent.
Categories: Connemara Wild Atlantic Way
Wednesday, 29 January 2014
Saturday, 11 January 2014
Wild Atlantic Way Ireland 2014 - Connemara ecoCamping holiday: Light up your year of travel
Hit the road to Irland on the new "Wild Atlantic Way". The 1,550 mile long touring route from Donegal to West Cork. Recent Altantic storms have certainly carved this unique route into the Western landscape. A rugged new landscape is there to be explored!
Clifden eco Beach Camping & Caravanning Park is situated on the shores of the scenic 'Wild Atlantic Way' at the estuary of Streamstown Bay. Unique to the park is anecosystem called 'Machair', listed as a priority habitat in Ireland under the EU Habitats Directive. This is a highly specialized & complex sand dune habitat system that is confined globally to the north West Coast of Ireland & Scotland. It comprises a flat or gently undulating sandy plain that develops in an oceanic location with a cool, moist climate resulting in rich bio-diversity.
Clifden eco Beach Camping & Caravanning Park is situated on the shores of the scenic 'Wild Atlantic Way' at the estuary of Streamstown Bay. Unique to the park is anecosystem called 'Machair', listed as a priority habitat in Ireland under the EU Habitats Directive. This is a highly specialized & complex sand dune habitat system that is confined globally to the north West Coast of Ireland & Scotland. It comprises a flat or gently undulating sandy plain that develops in an oceanic location with a cool, moist climate resulting in rich bio-diversity.
To date eight species of bumblebee occupy this Machair habitat, additionally the ecosystem borders the West Connacht SAC. These are marine habitats which are important for Bottlenose Dolphins that frequent these shores. Seven Natura sites are within a 5 km radius of our campsite with Natura 2000 being a European network of important ecological sites.
Outdoor adventure: the new Wild Atlantic Way in Ireland
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