Westport, County Mayo
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Westport is a town in County Mayo in Ireland. It is at the south-east corner of Clew Bay, an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean on the west coast of Ireland. Westport is a tourist destination and scores highly for quality of life. It won the Irish Tidy Towns Competition three times in 2001, 2006 and 2008. In 2012 it won the Best Place to Live in Ireland competition run by The Irish Times.
Mall along Carrowbeg River in Westport
The Carrowbeg river flows through Westport
The town of Westport in the early nineteenth century as painted by JA O'Connor. The main elements of the town are already in place.
John Browne, the First Earl of Altamont and Founder of the modern Westport House and the town of Westport
Clew Bay
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Clew Bay is a large ocean bay on the Atlantic coast of County Mayo, Ireland. It is roughly rectangular and has more than a hundred small islands on its landward side; Ireland's best example of sunken drumlins. The larger Clare Island guards the entrance of the bay.
Clew Bay from the south
Old Head Wood Nature Reserve (southern edge of Clew Bay
Clew Bay as seen from the top of Croagh Patrick.
Clew Bay as seen from Westport.