Hiking and Walking

The Derrigimlagh Walking Loop. In June 1919, pilot John Alcock and navigator Arthur Whitten Brown entered the annals of navigation history by taking the first transatlantic flight from Newfoundland to a bumpy crash-landing in the heart of Derrigimlagh Bog, close to Guglielmo Marconi's groundbreaking wireless station. Both the bog and the wireless station are noted in the staggeringly beautiful 5-km (3-mile) Derrigimlagh trail that passes miniature lakes, peat bogs, and rare flora and fauna. Ballyconneely , Clifden, Co. Galway. www.discoverireland.ie/Arts-Culture-Heritage/derrigimlagh/91306.