The five-day Connemara sale brings breeders, farmer, buyers and horse enthusiasts from across the globe.

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We stopped at a pub and savored smoked Connemara salmon, brown bread, and fish chowder.

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Here, in one of the most desolate areas of the Connemara, was a spiritual time capsule built into the mountain.

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My sister had a wonderful Connemara pony when we were growing up.

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In Clifden, we grabbed a seat at the Connemara Pony sale, where I had to fight to not bid on one of these special creatures.

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Yesterday, Cliff, Caitlin and I drove through the magical land of Connemara, with its lofty peaks and expansive views of the Twelve Ben Mountains and flat boggy peat planes.

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Bushmills makes a wide variety of its own labels, while most of the other Irish whiskey you can think of, including Tyrconnell and Connemara, are owned and made by Cooley.

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