walking, cycling or on horseback. The environment offers many
contrasts of terrain. Walk, cycle or trot along the many booreens or
developed routes and experience first hand the living breathing
bogland, machair and sand dunes, mountains and cliffs, sandy
beaches and rocky coves but most of all fill your lungs with clean air
from a pristine environment. Mayo offers a wonderful variety of short
walks, hill walks and way marked trails. The terrain varies from level,
to easy going to tough mountain climbing where specialist
equipment is essential. Whatever you choose, the scenery is
unfailingly stupendous and walks are almost always uncrowded.
Stretching along the western coast for over 170km this way marked
way takes the walker from the fjord of Killary Harbour at Leenaun on
the Co. Galway border to the base of the Ox Mountains on the
Co. Sligo border. The variety is tremendous as the route crosses
rugged mountains, small roads and winding leafy lanes and forest
tracks. The route enters the Mayo Gaeltacht region as it moves north
and through the wild bog landscape through Erris and Tirawley until
it reaches Ballycastle, near the 5,000 year old Céide Fields.
A detailed map is available in local tourist offices.