<P> The film employed many actors from the Irish theatre, including Barry Fitzgerald's brother, Arthur Shields, as well as extras from the Irish countryside, and it is one of the few Hollywood movies in which the Irish language can be heard . </P> <P> Filming commenced on June 7, 1951 . All of the outdoor scenes were shot on location in Ireland in County Mayo and County Galway . The inside scenes were filmed toward the end of July at the Republic Studios in Hollywood . </P> <P> The story is set in the fictitious community of Inisfree . This is not the same as the Lake Isle of Innisfree, a place in Lough Gill on the Sligo--Leitrim border made famous by poet William Butler Yeats, which is a tiny island . Many scenes for the film were actually shot in and around the village of Cong, County Mayo, on the grounds of Cong's Ashford Castle . Cong is now a wealthy small town and the castle a 5 - star luxury hotel . The connections with the film have led to the area becoming a tourist attraction . In 2008, a pub opened in the building used as the pub in the film (it had actually been a shop at the time when the movie was shot); the pub hosts daily re-runs of the film on DVD . The Quiet Man Fan Club holds its annual general meeting in Ashford Castle . Other locations in the film include Thoor Ballylee, Co . Galway, home of poet W.B. Yeats for a period, Ballyglunin railway station near Tuam Co . Galway, which was filmed as Castletown station, and various places in Connemara Co . Galway and Co . Mayo . Among those are Lettergesh beach, where the horse race scene was filmed, the Quiet Man Bridge, signposted off the N59 road between Maam Cross and Oughterard and the "White O'Morn" cottage . The latter is located on R336 south of Maam, but has long ago fallen into ruin . </P> <P> The film also presents Ford's depiction of an idealized Irish society, with no social divisions based on class or religion . The Catholic priest, Father Lonergan, and the Protestant Rev. Playfair maintain a strong friendly relationship throughout the film--which represented the norm in what was then the Irish Free State . (Religious tensions occurred in the 1930s, but were the norm only in Northern Ireland .) The only allusions to Anglo - Irish animosity occur after the happy couple is married and a congratulatory toast expresses the wish that they live in "national freedom" (the term national has been censored from most editions) and before the final donnybrook when Thornton demands his wife's dowry from Danaher . Danaher asks Hugh Forbes, who had been commander of the local Irish Republican Army unit during the fight to expel the British, "So the IRA is in this too, ah", to which Forbes replies, "If it were, not a scorched stone of your fine house would be standing ." </P>

Where was the john wayne movie the quiet man filmed