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Top Hotels in Sligo
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Clarion Hotel Sligo
541 reviews -
Sligo Park Hotel
270 reviews -
The Glasshouse Sligo
361 reviews
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BEST WESTERN Sligo Southern Hotel
150 reviews
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Sligo City Hotel
73 reviews
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Riverside Suites Hotel Sligo
81 reviews
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Innisfree Hotel Sligo
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Clarence Hotel Sligo
9 reviews
Sligo
Travel Blogs from Sligo, Ireland
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Ready for the off!
This is a top pick! Can't believe it's finally June and I only have 2 weeks left till D-day. The career break's granted, the house is let, the mail's redirected, the savings are in the bank and the bag is packed... I'm ready to go. It's sixteen years since i left Japan for ...
Westport and Sligo
This is a top pick! ... mountains. Pretty amazing accomplishment actually and certainly a unique experience. We both enjoyed the experience (if you are curious to see it I think their website is www.gyreum.com). Off to explore Donegal and then to Northern ...
Megalithical
This is a top pick! When going away for a weekend, there are certain items one must carry, and if going to Ireland, the the three most needed things are 1) A Passport 2) Clean Underwear 3) An Umbrella We have tried a gortex jacket, but an umbrella wins hands down ...
Dingle to Sligo to Strandhill
... natural rock formations. Well worth the visit should you be looking to visit the country and southern Ireland. Hours later... we reach Sligo. Known for nearly nothing other than a party scene and floating garbage and ducks in the ...
Cliffs, Cairns, and Yeats
... to the other so we deal with only one every day. Then we met and talked with a couple from Switzerland who are driving around Ireland until Thursday. We’ll see them again at breakfast. It’s getting late, and it’s time for us, like ...
Sick and Tired
... room. A quick coffee and a cakie later and no extremely breakable pottery purchases later we were off again. We headed towards Sligo, our stop for the night...we stopped on the way at a church in Drumcliffe where Willam Butler Yeats was buried and ...
And She's Off...!
... of obstreporous children, 5 days a week; paying unwelcome bills; listening to continuous doom-and-gloom news; adjusting to an Ireland deep in a recession and discovering the implications this has for me in terms of income levies, increased prsi, ...
Sunburns and Midges
I take back every mean thing I said about the weather in Ireland. The last four days have been beautiful. The last day in Galway Kristy and Zoe took off to Tara and I decide to stay in the city. It was sunny, blue skys and around 25. I spent most of the ...
Les Miserables Part Deux
... and dry and I can hear little Irish children playing outside in the wind and the rain! You know you’re in Ireland when…Although, they haven’t been out like us today, and they have nice warm trailers to run into...but still! ...
From Dublin to Sligo!
... we drove along the Royal Canal to Mullingar. In Boyle we walked through the ruins from the 12th century Cistercian Abbey. We drove through lots of lush country side to our hotel in Sligo bay. We had the afternoon free to shop and look around ...
Christmas in Ireland
C's Mum and sister came up to my Mum's for the 1st time ever, and so we had a grand oul ...
Seaweed baths and Tombs at Sligo
... chicken with field mushrooms and Dwayne had the same. It was very yummy, although the portions were much larger than most places in Ireland. Keeping with the tradition of not having food with music, we set out to the Harper's Bar to take in some Irish ...
Sligo
Went to see my Mum and we go to fancy "new best in North West" restaurtant called 'Cleavery Mills' with my best friends Mum. Lovely restaurant & food, but had surreal experience with the 2 ladies, as they spotted my embarrassing teenage ex. at the petrol ...
Back Home... For Now!
Back to Ireland at last... ten and a half months later than I planned, but I got here! I was greeted by the smiles of Rachel and Marion, on arrival at Dublin airport, and we spent the night catching up and eating Indian, followed by a long lazy ...
Day 8 - Co: GAL, MAY & SLI
... . we drove to a beach which he said was an hour away, we got there in under 10 minutes. so then we started wondering if 5 hours to sligo was a bit of an exageration! when we got back on the road i rang a hostel in sligo, he said it would be a 3 hour drive ...
Here Comes the Sun
... food :) We wandered the beach for the rest of the afternoon watching learning surfers try things out. Never knew that Ireland was such a hot spot for surfing! Wandering a little further we found an old deserted church and cemetary. ...
Sligo Adventures
... a bad peice of pottery.(they throw anything with the slightest crack away).W.B. Yeates grave was pretty interesting too. He was a famous poet of Ireland, and his epitaph says 'Cast a cold Eye, on Life, on Death, Horseman, pass by! Granny: He is buried in ...
Ecolodge
... circular second floor seating area that evening. It was here that Robyn battled the largest spider we'd seen in Ireland and where we shrieked our way through a very traumatizing spider execution via the kitchen sink drain. Feeling a little ...
Anna in Ireland!!!
Anna is in Ireland!!! Here is what she has told me so far about her trip: 9/19/2008 I am here in Sligo, we left dublin this morning and it has been great! i have still been trying to catch on sleep it feels like but so far the wather has been ...
More stones
... around and took a few photos and was all finished by 3.30. Then I walked the 4km back into town. That's it for Sligo. Nothing else to see. Next stop was supposed to be Derry but that was only because I expected to see Carrowmore tomorrow morning ...
Sligo
Yesterday we drove from Dublin to Sligo on the border with Northern Ireland. We stopped off at Boyle for a photo stop of the 12th Century Cistercian Abbey ruins, then onto a town near the river Shannon for a cruise on the Shannon. Not much to see on the ...
More Tradition Explored, new cousins discovered!
... to scan and mail them back pronto. What a wonderful set of cousins the Gallaghers are, true story tellers. The Gallaghers (in Ireland this name is pronounced Gall-a-her, silent G), Brian and his wife Pauline, we'll be in touch with his sister Maev ...
Wee Sligo Town
Today I find myself in Sligo town, the small capital city of Sligo county. The drive up here from Galway was beautiful, the mountains are fantastic. Yesterday we went to the Aran Islands, which are the home of the overly puffy sweaters that old guys ...
Londonderry to Sligo
Today we left Londonderry and crossed the border over to Sligo, Ireland. We had a free morning to rest and recooperate and enjoyed exploring the hotel in Londonderry. Once on the road we stopped in Donegal at the Donegal Weavers Factory. We were ...
Downpatrick Head
From the Mullet peninsula, we drove along the North coast towards Sligo. Hardly mentioned in our travel book was Downpatrick Head. A sign posted at the gate reminds visitors that, unlike some of the country's other cliffed attractions, this one ...
Happy St. Paddy's Day - March 17th
... still fun nonetheless to see the whole town and then some come out for the event! We then made our way towards out of Sligo and headed towards a B&B that mom and dad thought they had booked in a little town in Co. Leitrim....had to get directions ...
Harbour House Sligo
... a beer and some live music. Had a great time. The publican made a fuss of us and they even sang us a song about leaving Ireland for Australia. Had another couple of Guinness’ and Katalin was a hit with the local lads. As we were leaving one of the ...
seaweed bath in Sligo.... a must !
... from the boats and the trees made it look stunning. It was a beautiful day and I wasn't sure if I was really in Ireland - its meant to be cold and wet! A duck and its ducklings swimming in the lake just completed the picture. In town ...
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