NATURAL WONDER

Just out of Leenane is a bend in the road. Here a small bridge crosses the Erriff River where it twists and swells into Killary Harbour. In the fields on the eastern side of the bridge there is scarce pasture. There in the shadow of the Mweelrea mountains the river makes a statement.

The Aasleagh Falls tumbles, dramatic and mesmerising. A tapestry of blue water, embroidered by white foam, folds itself over a precipice and spreads like a rolling bolt of cloth across the copper toned river bed. The colours entwine and furl in the sunshine flagging a moment of magic in an Irish summer.