Clew Bay—Quite Possibly Ireland’s Most Beautiful Coastline
British novelist and illustrator William Thackeray, wrote of Clew Bay after he visited in 1842: “The bay, with the Reek, which sweeps down to the sea, and a hundred islands in it, were dressed up in gold and purple, and crimson, with the whole cloudy west in a flame,” (Clew Bay Archaeological Trail, 2003, p […]