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If you're travelling by road, you'll probably enter Mayo from Galway, via the spectacular scenery of Killary Harbour, part of the lobe of land between the Galway border and Westport that's known as the Barony of Murrisk . This is country as rugged and remote as anything you'll find in the west, and two ranges of hills, the Mweelrea Mountains and the Sheefry Hills, provide terrain for energetic walking, mountaineering, riding, fishing and canoeing. The coast road passes through the villages of Delphi and Louisburgh which, along with the deserted Clare Island , are closely associated with the belligerent pirate Queen Grace O'Malley . Before reaching the lively town of Westport the road skirts the foot of Croagh Patrick mountain, the scene of an annual pilgrimage honouring the country's national saint.
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