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connemara
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n. pony breed native to Ireland.
Wikipedia
Connemara is a district in the west of Ireland, the boundaries of which are not well defined. Some define it to be the land contained by Killary Harbour, the Maam Valley, Lough Corrib (as far as Moycullen); a line from there to the sea at Barna and the Atlantic Ocean. The historical territory of Connemara, as defined by the 17th century historian Ruaidhrí Ó Flaithbheartaigh in his book West or H-Iar Connaught, was coextensive with the barony of Ballynahinch, This is a broad peninsula stretching from Killary Harbour on the north to Kilkieran Bay on the south. The boundary runs from the north along the spine of the Maumturk Mountains then along a series of small rivers and across upland west of Maam Cross eventually following the course of the Invermore river before meeting the sea west of the Ros Muc peninsula.
Connemara is a district in the west of Ireland. Connemara or Conamara may also refer to:
- Conamara Chaos, a region of chaotic terrain on Jupiter's moon Europa
- Connemara pony, a breed of horse
- Connemara, a brand of Irish whiskey produced by the Cooley Distillery
- " The Hills of Connemara", an Irish drinking song by Sean McCarthy about Irish moonshine (or Poitín)
- "Les Lacs du Connemara", a 1981 song by French singer Michel Sardou
- Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site, the former home of poet Carl Sandburg in Flat Rock, North Carolina, which he named after the Connemara region
- Connemara Station, a cattle station in Queensland
Usage examples of "connemara".
Europe scientific tests have proven that the Andalusian contributed to the development of the Connemara, the Cleveland Bay, the Friesan, the Hackney, the Percheron, the Thoroughbred, and the Welsh.
Wine, peltries, Connemara marble, silver from Tipperary, second to none, our farfamed horses even today, the Irish hobbies, with king Philip of Spain offering to pay customs duties for the right to fish in our waters.
Tarbarrels and bonfires were lighted along the coastline of the four seas on the summits of the Hill of Howth, Three Rock Mountain, Sugarloaf, Bray Head, the mountains of Mourne, the Galtees, the Ox and Donegal and Sperrin peaks, the Nagles and the Bograghs, the Connemara hills, the reeks of M Gillicuddy, Slieve Aughty, Slieve Bernagh and Slieve Bloom.
While relieving himself behind a rhododendron bush, he was drenched by a sudden squall of rainthe weather in Connemara being nothing if not fickleand pneumonia resulted.
Since none of the Connemara men would help him level the mound and plant the wood, he had brought in a crew from his estate in Germany.
Ambassador Noble felt like a child playing truant as he idled around the hills and lakes of Connemara in his rented Ford Fiesta.
Along the coast of Connemara, Mayo, and Sligo many other ships were wrecked.
Sir Richard Bingham, the governor of Connaught, arrived in a few hours, and at once despatched search parties through Clare and Connemara to bring all Spaniards cast ashore alive to the town, and sent his son to Mayo to fetch down all who landed there.
And, says Mr Dixon, if ever he got scent of a cattleraider in Roscommon or the wilds of Connemara or a husbandman in Sligo that was sowing as much as a handful of mustard or a bag of rapeseed out he'd run amok over half the countryside rooting up with his horns whatever was planted and all by lord Harry's orders.
Let me be going now, woman of the house, for by all the goats in Connemara I'm after having the father and mother of a bating.
Moher, the windy wilds of Connemara, lough Neagh with submerged petrified city, the Giant's Causeway, Fort Camden and Fort Carlisle, the Golden Vale of Tipperary, the islands of Aran, the pastures of royal Meath, Brigid's elm in Kildare, the Queen's Island shipyard in Belfast, the Salmon Leap, the lakes of Killarney.
So the guy must be dead, and I'm not going to spend my hard-earned rest in Connemara worrying about what might happen next.
All across Connemara to Galway harbor and a ship, or I wouldn't be here today.
The Redcoats with a rope in hue and cry behind, runnin' me across Connemara to Galway Harbor and a ship to America.
It wasn't until a week later, when he was helping a traveling farrier shoe the Connemara pony, that he remarked that he thought he'd pulled something in his left arm and walked back up to the house and when I paid the farrier and walked up there myself, Papa was sitting in his easy chair, dead, with a glass of ouzo beside him.