Connemara National Park, in northwestern Connemara on Ireland’s Atlantic coast, opened in 1980 as one of the country’s eight national parks. Covering about 2,000 hectares near Letterfrack, it includes mountains, bogs, heath, grassland, and woodland, with blanket bog and heathland dominating. Its bog habitats support plants such as sundew, butterwort, orchids, bog cotton, lichens, and mosses, while the park is also notable for songbirds, birds of prey, and mammals including badgers, otters, hares, and reintroduced red deer. Formerly part of the Kylemore Abbey estate, it also preserves a 19th-century graveyard and megalithic court tombs dating back about 4,000 years.