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Sunday Telegraph, 31 July 1988
The
gentle charms of Connemara
By Hazel Leslie
...Many people had told us about Moran's Oyster Cottage near Clarenbridge, on the main Galway-Limerick road. It stands beside a creek in what remains of a village called The Weir, and is a business which has been in the same family for 200 years, from the time when The Weir was a busy port for the shipping of peat.
Peat now travels by rail, and the farmers who sell it no longer crowd to Morans. But others do, from all over the world, and its walls are heavy with tributes to the quality of its seafood - and its Irish whisky.
The great thing about Moran oysters is that they come directly from the bed to the table. In front of a snug peat fire, we enjoyed ours with wedges of home-baked brown bread preceded by a delicious thick lobster bisque and followed by Irish coffee.
The young man behind the bar was silent, but when we came to pay our bill he asked politely where we came from. "English are you?" he said. "I thought maybe you were horse people from the Midlands." At which, although I had not ridden since I was 10 years old, I felt absurdly flattered....
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