View of beaches from the top of Mweelrea, c. 1976-1978

Item

Format

JPEG

Title

View of beaches from the top of Mweelrea, c. 1976-1978

Identifier

VH0054

Depiction

A broad view down a mountainside towards the sea with beaches and small islands.

Description

This is a view west from Mweelrea (Cnoc Maol Réidh) towards Doovilra, Uggool, Inishdegilmore and Inishdegil Beg. At 814m the summit of Mweelrea is the highest point in Connacht.

In 2022 Michael Kane gave a vivid account of the activities of the Mountaineering Club in its early days. See 'Michael Kane's account of the Mountaineering Club c. 1971-72'.

The Mountaineering Club was established in 1970. Its membership in 2023 was over 1000.(Mountaineering Club, 'About us'). The Library archives contain a number of documents relating to the club. These were placed in the care of the University by Aengus Finnegan, Secretary 2010-2011 (Mountaineering Club, 'Archive').

Contributor

Bibliographic Citation

M. Kane, J. Conroy, ‘View of beaches from the top of Mweelrea, c. 1976-1978’, Visual History Retired Staff Collection, University of Galway Digital Collections, Asset Id 14282, Archival Record Id VHRS

Temporal Coverage

Period

1970s

Category

colour
landscape
off-campus
outdoors

Keywords

Connemara
mountains

Language

English
Irish

Creator

Michael Kane

Publisher

University of Galway Library

Rights

This image may be used for non-commercial purposes under CC BY-NC-SA see https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/