BY AUDREY PAVIA
A herd of Connemara ponies roams in fields of yellow gorse at Connemara National Park in Galway, Ireland.
PHOTOS BY MARTINA GATES
Many years ago, among the boglands where the heathlands grow and the mountains rise up, a special pony found its home. Its ancestors came to Ireland by way of the ancient Celts, skilled horsemen who fought the great Roman armies.