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Joe Steinbring

Kinvara

Wide tidal mudflats with a small green boat and a castle tower on the far shore.
Low tide at Kinvara, with Dunguaire Castle across the water.2023 · Photograph by Joe Steinbring
Static offline map showing Kinvara in Ireland with a location pin.

Kinvara is a small village at the head of an inlet on the south side of Galway Bay, and it was the first stop of the two-day Wild Atlantic Way tour my Mom and I took in May 2023. We got there in the late morning of Friday, May 5. The tide was all the way out, leaving the boats sitting on the mud along the quay, and across the water stood Dunguaire Castle, a tower house the O’Hynes clan built around 1520. The Friday farmers market was set up in the square, with crafts, vegetables and boxes of secondhand books, and the street around it was lined with painted shop fronts and pubs.

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  • A blue and white sailboat lying on the mud beside a stone quay wall at low tide.

    Boats on the mud along the quay.

    2023 · Photograph by Joe Steinbring

  • A mint-green building signed Johnstons on a wet village street, with a thatched building beyond.

    Johnstons, on the main street.

    2023 · Photograph by Joe Steinbring

  • Stalls under red, white and gray canopies at a market in a village square.

    The Friday farmers market in the square.

    2023 · Photograph by Joe Steinbring

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