A spectacular sequence of mountains, lakes, steep Atlantic cliffs, vast peat bogs where various types of heather and typical flora grow, and where badgers, foxes, otters, stoats, moose, grey seals, peregrine falcons, kestrels, and grey crows live.
Typical and curious are also the Connemara ponies, in Galway, which, according to legend, descend from the Arabian horses that survived the sinking of the Invincible Armada.
The Park covers about two thousand hectares, includes hills that do not exceed 800 meters in height, and preserves numerous traces of prehistoric times: 4000-year-old megalithic tombs and dry stone walls that used to delimit fields and pastures.
