Globaltickit visits Sligo, Ireland

THE SLIGO EXPERIENCE

Sligo is the poet W.B. Yeats country. We stayed in the Sligo Park Hotel.

We did a circuit of Lough Gill taking in the Pilgrimage Shrine and Holy Well at Tobernalt Legend has it that St Patrick's fingers are imprinted on the top of the Mass rock.

This is the area where the community gathered in secret to hold their mass as to do so in public would risk their lives.

On to Dooney Rock and the Lake Isle of Inishfree.

- AS WRITTEN ABOUT BY THE POET "YEATS".

EJ AND DAD AT INISHFREE

CUTE EH? ONLY IN IRELAND!

Travelling on we came to Parkes Castle which is a fine example of a fortified Manor House of the Plantation Period.

We then made our way past Colga Lake and came to Hazelwood where we had a walk and some some famous sculptures.

We visited Mullaghmore where Lord Mountbatton was blown up by the IRA. His magnificent castle is still there and occupied. We went to see a memorial to three ships from the Spanish Armada which had foundered near the village of Streedagh.

THIS IS THE HOME OWNED BY THE LATE EARL MOUNTBATTEN WHO WAS KILLED BY THE I.R.A

THE MOUNTBATTON SEAL.

THIS WAS AN AMAZING COASTAL DRIVE THE SCENERY WAS SPECTACULAR.

MUM AND DAD - MUM WAS SAYING DAD WAS THREATENING TO PUSH HER OVER!!

WE STOPPED FOR ICECREAM AND THIS WAS OUR VIEW.

We then made our way to Creevukeel Court Tomb regarded as the finest examdple of a classic Court Tomb. Following the Harvard expedition of 1935 four cremated burials, Western Neolithic Pottery and flints were found believed to date between 3000-3500 BC. We also visited Glencar Waterfall - a magnificent sight.

THE TRADITIONAL GUINNESS SIGN PAINTED ON THE WALL.

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