Connemara National Park
Just 5 minutes from Ben Breen house, the Connemara National Park at Letterfrack comprises nearly 3000 hectares of grass and woodlands, bog, heath, and mountains—including several peaks of the Beanna Beola or 12 Pins.
Connemara National ParkJust 5 minutes from Ben Breen house, the Connemara National Park at Letterfrack comprises nearly 3000 hectares of grass and woodlands, bog, heath, and mountains—including several peaks of the Beanna Beola or 12 Pins. |
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Admission is free, with park facilities including multilingual audio-visual shows and exhibitions, a children’s playground and picnic areas, access to nature trails and the Diamond Hill walks, as well as the Visitor Centre and Tea Rom, open daily from 9:30-5 from March to October.
Park plant life features heathers, purple moor grass, insect-eating sundew and butterwort, as well as milkwort, bog cotton, lousewort, bog myrtle and orchids. A wide variety of birdlife takes in meadow pipits, skylarks, stonechats, the kestrel, merlin, and peregrine falcon, as well as robins, wrens, and chaffinches. Mammals in the park include the Connemara pony, red deer, rabbits, foxes, stoats, shrews, bats, pine marten, and the invasive non-native mink.