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Croagh Patrick
Croagh Patrick is Ireland's foremost pilgrimage mountain, a 764-metre quartzite pyramid above Clew Bay in County Mayo where tradition says St Patrick fasted forty days, and where pilgrims still climb each Reek Sunday.