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A Yeats Country Drive - Self Drive
Oct 13 2011 09:40 AM | Bhushan in Self Drive Tours
A Yeats Country Drive
+353 (0)71 9161201
First head west of Sligo, to Carrowmore (5km), one of the most significant prehistoric cemeteries in Europe. Monuments on view consist mostly of dolmens and small passage tombs. The road winds west around Knocknarea with an ancient cairn on its summit associated with Queen Maeve, a formidable warrior queen of Connacht. There is a car park on the R292 road with pedestrian access to the summit. This 45 minute walk offers magnificent panoramas of the Sligo coast and countryside.
Strandhill is a seaside resort with a distinct Irish village character. It is a popular surfing centre and there is a fine 18-hole golf course running by the bay with backdrop of Knocknarea Mountain.
Return through Sligo and follow the signs for Rosses Point, (8km) one of Sligo's leading resorts. The picturesque village, magnificent sandy beach, the championship golf links and the yacht club justifiably attract visitors each year. Then back along this lovely peninsula facing Benbulben and north to Drumcliffe (8km), the site of an ancient monastic settlement founded by St. Colmcille in the 6th century, of which just a stump of a Round Tower and a fine carved High Cross, c 11th century, remain. The churchyard contains the grave of W. B. Yeats. The headstone bears his own epitaph: "Cast a cold eye on life, on death, Horseman pass by".
Head north-west to Lissadell via Carney (5km). There is a wild- fowl reserve between the road and the sea noted for wintering barnacle geese.
Yeats was a great friend of the remarkable Gore-Booths, particularly Eva, the poet, and Constance, who as Countess Markievicz, was part of the revolutionary movement in Ireland and was the first woman member ever elected to the Westminster Parliament in 1918. She refused to take up her seat and became the first Minister for Labour in the Irish Free State Dail. Lissadell a classical house of the 1830s.
From Lissadell we travel back to the main road and then north via Grange and Cliffony to Mullaghmore (22km) where there is a fully equipped deep sea angling boat for hire. West of Grange is Streedagh which has some fine beaches and dunes. Three Spanish Armada ships foundered off the point here in 1588. This section of the tour encompasses a long established tour of Grange and District, which runs to and from Grange via the Gleniff Horseshoe.
+353 (0)71 9161201
First head west of Sligo, to Carrowmore (5km), one of the most significant prehistoric cemeteries in Europe. Monuments on view consist mostly of dolmens and small passage tombs. The road winds west around Knocknarea with an ancient cairn on its summit associated with Queen Maeve, a formidable warrior queen of Connacht. There is a car park on the R292 road with pedestrian access to the summit. This 45 minute walk offers magnificent panoramas of the Sligo coast and countryside.
Strandhill is a seaside resort with a distinct Irish village character. It is a popular surfing centre and there is a fine 18-hole golf course running by the bay with backdrop of Knocknarea Mountain.
Return through Sligo and follow the signs for Rosses Point, (8km) one of Sligo's leading resorts. The picturesque village, magnificent sandy beach, the championship golf links and the yacht club justifiably attract visitors each year. Then back along this lovely peninsula facing Benbulben and north to Drumcliffe (8km), the site of an ancient monastic settlement founded by St. Colmcille in the 6th century, of which just a stump of a Round Tower and a fine carved High Cross, c 11th century, remain. The churchyard contains the grave of W. B. Yeats. The headstone bears his own epitaph: "Cast a cold eye on life, on death, Horseman pass by".
Head north-west to Lissadell via Carney (5km). There is a wild- fowl reserve between the road and the sea noted for wintering barnacle geese.
Yeats was a great friend of the remarkable Gore-Booths, particularly Eva, the poet, and Constance, who as Countess Markievicz, was part of the revolutionary movement in Ireland and was the first woman member ever elected to the Westminster Parliament in 1918. She refused to take up her seat and became the first Minister for Labour in the Irish Free State Dail. Lissadell a classical house of the 1830s.
From Lissadell we travel back to the main road and then north via Grange and Cliffony to Mullaghmore (22km) where there is a fully equipped deep sea angling boat for hire. West of Grange is Streedagh which has some fine beaches and dunes. Three Spanish Armada ships foundered off the point here in 1588. This section of the tour encompasses a long established tour of Grange and District, which runs to and from Grange via the Gleniff Horseshoe.
