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Sat 03 Mar 2007The perfect holiday at Spiddal's peaceful hillAnother Life Michael VineyYou wouldn't know Moycullen if you haven't been there in a while. Once a village, now a dormitory for Galway city, it has a whole new street of shops, and tower cranes peer down at something huge and cavernous they are building at the crossroads. The hill road to the south, across the bog to Spiddal, once adventurously bumpy, now has a velvety black finish that stops somewhere after the last new bungalow, the final tasteful, garden-centre shrub.