Sligo Road Trip

Took our second, longer, road trip today to County Sligo. Passed through seven counties to get there...Down, Armagh, Tyrone, Fermanagh,Cavan, Leitrim and finally Sligo. It was roughly a three hour journey to cross the country.

This is the second year we have done a fairly longish road trip from our base in Dundrum...last year we went up to Donegal for the day!

As we pass through the counties I read from the guide book...the kids listen...sometimes...hopefully they are getting some knowledge about the country they are holidaying in.

When we arrived in Sligo made a wrong choice by heading out to the beach first...should have went out to Carrowmore the largest Neolithic site in Europe...by the time we made our way out there it was closing for the day:-(

However, we did spend an enjoyable couple of hours at the beach...good surfing waves and there were a few folk in with their boards. Buncle was very taken with this and waded in deeper than usual so spent the journey home dressed in his fleece and wrapped in the tartan rug...he was soaked to the skin and didn't think before about the fact we had no change of clothes with us for him!

This blip is of Ben Bulben. The poet WB Yeats is buried in Drumcliffe cemetery that sits below this impressive rock formation. Sligo is sometimes referred to as Yeats Country.

The town it's self has some really old looking shop fronts.

We left Sligo via a trip round Lough Gill, in which the island of Innisfree sits, immortalised by Yeats in 1888 in his poem The Lake Isle of Innisfree.

It was a long day, but we saw a fair bit of the country and have decided we will go back and spend more time in Sligo.