The Killary, as it’s known to the locals is the only fjord in Ireland and was gouged out of the rock by the glaciers of the last ice-age. The town of Leenane is close by, where the film The Field was made, and I suspect they are still living on the merits of it.
The Connemara Princess, a state of the art catamaran will take you on a most enchanting ninety-minute tour of this fjord, complete with commentary, video and very pleasant food and drink. Along the way, sheer cliffs drop to unimaginable depths while sheep cling impossibly to the precipice. Terns plunge into the slate grey surface of the fjord, to surface, most times triumphantly, with fish in their beaks.
On the far shore, the remains of lazy beds can be seen from famine times, where potatoes were grown, their nutrition gained by the back-breaking labour of trailing seaweed from the shoreline up onto the slopes. Until a tax was levied on it. Lazy beds? A misnomer if ever there was one.
Apparently during the last war, there was a great storm off this coast and in order to take shelter, two submarines patrolling the Atlantic, put into the Killary. The only problem was that one was British and one was German. And Eire was neutral. In order to avoid what could have been an international incident, the Government of the Republic ignored them, the submarines ignored each other, and the crews met down the pub for the craic during the three days it took for the storm to blow over! Apparently there was a continuous stream of Arthur Guinness’s dray horses delivering from Clifden. Now that’s what’s called a peace process!
Only problem was afterwards when the storm was over, and they went out into the Atlantic, instead of sinking pints they started sinking each other.
Is this your business?