Walked for about 4.5 miles through the rocky fields, beautiful in a lonely sort of way. Then we hit the timberland. The forest here are all managed and planted, when we came to a stop do not enter /detour/logging in process sign we decided that we would stay the course and walk on our original path. We did not hear any big machinery or chain saws. We were able to walk about 2 miles of perfect forest when we came to a river and to mass logging.
We crossed the river fine, but there was another detour sign. Because there was activity here we decided to take the detour. BIG mistake. After about 1/2 hour of being lost we still couldn't find the path so we decided to walk up to a gravel logging road and try to find the original western way. Through muck and debris we finally found it! I was not happy.
We thought we were almost done but soon realized we were 1/2 way to Leenane, ugh. Up a rocky track, down a rocky track we see the harbor in the distance and faint outlines of houses.
Killary Harbor Famine Trail, 8.5 miles, 6 hours.
We were driven to Rosroe pier and started our walk along the Killary famine trail by ourselves. This trail was made by starving people of the area when the potatoe crops failed year after year. The wealthy had the people make walls and roads so that instead of handing out food they could work for their food. The rock walls are amazing. We were soon overtaken by a group of 20 (or more) Germans from a bus tour.
The harbor below was in constant view and the buoys were mussel farms. We had some Killary harbor mussels that rivaled penn cove's!
The first half of this walk was the famine trail and the second half was the same last 4 miles of yesterday.
We stayed 2 nights here in the same place called the Convent B&B which was beautiful and still had some of the original Windows and charm from when it was a convent 40 years ago.
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