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Killary Fjord is a fjord on the west coast of Ireland, in northern Connemara. To its north is County Mayo and the mountains of Mweelrea and Ben Gorm; to its south is County Galway and the Maumturk Mountains

 

The 16-kilometre fjord formed about 20,000 years ago when a massive natural fault line that reaches all the way from Scotland caused the westward movement of mile-deep ice. The path along the southern shore of the fjord is an old famine relief road, built by cutting a terrace into the ground and laying stone.

 

 

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