Geograph - photograph every grid square

The further west you go the less definitive the road is, although on the steeper parts the retaining walls as still clearly seen. The road was built by impoverished locals during the Irish famine, 1845-1848, not such much because it was needed but because the English landowners fed the locals if they worked on the road and didn't feed them if they didn't.
In the distance is the island of Gubderrynasliggan guarding the entrance to Killary Harbour.