At low tide, you can drive from the mainland across to Omey, a tidal island, one of a series of small islands that run along the Connemara coast.

Born in Yorkshire, he moved to the Aran Islands in 1972, and later settled in the village of Roundstone on the Connemara coast, where he still lives.

"This is an ongoing project, but I think that it is going pretty well," said Dr. Blum, who is leaving with Dr. Sun after the wedding for a bicycle tour of the Connemara coast in Ireland.

Ó Súilleabháin drowned on 25 June, 1950, while swimming off the Connemara coast.

Some reports said she ended on the gallows in Dublin, others that she took James Stuart's offer of a small castle on the Connemara coast.

Today the main activity of all these boats is racing, and there are numerous regattas along the Connemara coast.

The islands off western Ireland's Connemara coast are so full of legend that it seemed wise not to get on the bad side of some ancient curse.

There is all sorts of riding - dressage, flat work, cross-country and a day's ride along the Connemara coast - but the main thing is the jumping.

We took two cross-country rides and a day's trip along the Connemara coast with lunch at a pub.

How to cope on foot, bike, bus or pony trap Getting There Island Ferries, (353-91) 561767, runs a service from Rossaveal, 23 miles west of Galway City on the Connemara coast, to Kilronan several times a day (including the bus from Galway to Rossaveal).