There was once a regular steam-boat service that traveled from here to the city of Galway via Oughterard in the years after the Famine. This is the quay at Maam (Mám) which is linked via a channel to Lough Corrib. Today, only the odd fishing boat and lake boat are tied up here. The quay is overlooked by Keane’s pub, which was originally built (in 1833) for the Scottish engineer Alexander Nimmo as a base to survey Connemara – Nimmo died before it was finished. In the background is a snow-covered Corcóg, part of the Maumturk mountain range in Connemara.
More pictures in the gallery here.