Horse Riding Ireland: Connemara
Equestrian Vacation - Trail riding in Connemara, guided by Willie
Leahy (Irish Horse Whisperer) - Walking Trail for Non Riders -
Cross country riding and Hunting in the mild Irish Winter

Horse Riding Ireland: Equestrian Vacation in Connemara
An everlasting land of ferocious splendour. Celebrated for its breathtaking scenery. This is a region of contrasting landscapes. Spectacular mountains, peaceful lakes, unscathed bogs. The innumerable colours of the surroundings transform constantly beneath the shifting sky. It is a wilderness of mystifying beauty, on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean. From riding the Connemara and Coast Trails you are brought into the hidden core of this landscape.
Willie Leahy, a quintessential Irish horseman, guides your adventure through Connemara. Willie Leahy was the first person, anywhere in the world, to conduct a vacation trail ride. Willie breeds more Connemara ponies in the world than anyone else and is also the Field Master of the renowned Galway Blazers Hunt. For more than 30 years the Leahy family have taken pleasure in bringing guests to this very unique part of Ireland. Their friendly attention ensures that every rider goes home with special memories of a brilliant holiday.

The Horses:
Skilled or beginner riders alike can enjoy this holiday. Between four and six hours a day are spent riding on well-bred, composed Irish hunters and Connemara ponies.
Your mount for the week is chosen with a caring and experienced eye to ensure that horse and rider are well suited to one another.

Connemara Trail:
Guiding the Trail ride through the Highland of Connemara to the Atlantic Ocean is Willie Leahy, a quintessential Irish horseman.
The Connemara Trail was first embarked on more than 33 years ago.
It is the longest-standing trail ride in the world.The trail passes through the wildest and most striking scenery that Ireland has to offer.
Riding is available from May to October.
Riders are on horseback for four to six hours per day.
Skilled or beginner riders alike can enjoy this guided Trail Ride.

Connemara Coast Trail:
Willie Leahy, quintessential Irish horseman, leads the Trail Ride down by the Connemara Coast from Clifden to the region near Galway.
The Coast Trail started more than 20 years ago to supplement the Connemara Trail.
The trail passes through the wildest and most striking scenery that Ireland has to offer.

"Connemara has always been a wild place, too barren and bog-ridden for agriculture but good for ponies, sheep, fishermen and ghosts. Men earn their living by fishing and gathering seaweed and by breeding horses. The annual Connemara Horse Show in Clifden is world famous. You'll hear Gaelic, the native Irish language, spoken here more than anywhere else in Ireland.
The people of this rugged coast have an aura of toughness about them."
(by Virginia Westbury)

Horse Riding Ireland: Galway
Aille Cross Country Trail:
The Irish winter climate is perfectly suited for cross country riding.
The Aille Cross Cross-Country Ride offers cross country jumping and trail riding at a speed that can be adjusted to suit riders with different abilities.
The ride will bring you cross country from one farm to another, and at each farm, if you desire, there will be a chance to jump a variety of very different varied cross-country courses.

Hunting:
Ireland is known all over the world for its hunting. Aille Cross is located in the Galway Blazers country. It is ideal hunting country, open, level going divided by the stone walls for which the hunt is so well-known.
The Irish hunting horse is as special as the country itself.
We take delight in being able to match your ability to one of our horses to guarantee that you have the time of your life upon this hunting holiday.
Aille Cross gives riders, whether experienced or not, the chance to hunt in the Galway countryside. Your host at Aille Cross, Willie Leahy, is the Fieldmaster of the Galway Blazers Hunt.
Riders should be assured and safe at all paces and over fences. But, not like many other hunting holidays, riders have the chance to get to know their hunters and the country ahead of time. The package comprises one to three days of hunting with six days of riding.

Guided Connemara Walking Trail - Hiking Connemara:
The Connemara Walking Trail givess a unique chance to explore the
landscape of this incredible region in a beautiful tract of private land full
of history and spectacular views that will enchant the walker.
The Connemara Walking Trail is for those who appreciate isolation and wish to get away from well-trodden footpaths.
Although we are on our own in the mountains the remains of a long
forgotten human presence is evident for us to explore and be in awe of.
The long tough walk to the uppermost reaches of the
trail is repaid with the most awe-inspiring views.
At the summit, the sea can be seen both to the west and to the east far away the famous Connemara mountain range too.
The Twelve Bens gaze over a landscape that seems to go on without an end.

Aille Cross Equestrian Centre
Connemara Trails
Loughrea, Co. Galway
Ireland

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