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, gray seals, merlins, peregrine falcons, wheatears, and hooded crows live.
Typical and curious are also the Connemara ponies, in Galway, which, according to legend, descend from Arab horses that survived the shipwreck of the Invincible Armada.
The Park extends over about two thousand hectares, includes hills that do not exceed 800 meters in height, and preserves numerous traces of prehistoric times: 4,000-year-old megalithic tombs and dry stone walls that once enclosed fields and pastures.
