Distance: 1km to 2½km
Time: 40 Minutes
Level: Easy

Dawros Walk - download the Connemara Loop Map & Directions in PDF format.

Walk from the main drive of the Connemara West Centre at Letterfrack. Cross the road to the right and turn left past Veldons Bar on the road to Tullycross and Renvyle. The road sweeps to the right around a large house which was once Cassons Hotel where Marconi stayed in 1912 during the building of his trans-atlantic receiving station nearby.

At the second yellow water pump turn left. After about 100 yards you have one of the best vantage points on the walk. Behind you is the Diamond Mountain and Kylemore Valley. Ahead you can see Ballinakill Harbour with the island of Inishbofin, still inhabited, in the distance and Tully Mountain to your right.

The road now takes you to Dawros Beg and the best walk is to continue on this road with the south shore to your left, where you can see on your left, near once housed the lobster storage ponds of the East Atlantic Company which traded in the early part of this century.

The Distance from the Tullycross / Letterfrack road to the end of this track is about 2½ km so retrace your steps when you feel that you have walked half as far as you wish.