Connemara National Park and Park Ponies

Connemara National Park
The story of the Park ponies must begin when James and Mary Ellis and family decided to move from England to this remote spot west of the Connemara mountain ranges of the Twelve Bens and the Maumturks, in 1849.  At the time poverty and famine were endemic in the area and this Quaker [...]

Part 2 Ponies in the Connemara National Park

I wish to thank most sincerely all of the ‘Park People’of  the National Parks and Wildlife Service who gave me information and the use of photos, Noel Kirby, Breda Brady and  Ger O’Donnell and to the four custodians who helped out, Stephanie Brooks, Madeline Hannigan Joyce, Siobhan Cazabon Sullivan and Cathy Snow Coyne, Go raibh [...]