Daly's Hotel Castlebar

The Mall Castlebar, County Mayo, Western Ireland, Ireland

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What the Cong?!

A travel blog entry by sarahimray

... Another wanted to moan about England and accuse me of being British, and one kept coming up to me and whispering in Gaelic as though I should surely understand him.  It was a crazy night out on the tiles in a very different culture, and so it was probably a good day today to visit Knock. Knock seems to be the centre of Catholic worship in this area, so maybe it was an ideal place to atone for our sins. Possibly it is ...

I'm a bog hopper!

A travel blog entry by londonpenguin

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... hopping. It was a very strange sensation.

The Doo Lough Valley is beautiful, and the sun was playing with the clouds and sending down shafts of light to enhance the different shades of green on the hills. During the famine, 600 people from Doo Lough walked eight miles to Louisburgh to beg Lord Brown to give them some food. Lord Brown refused to help them at all. So the people started the walk back to Doo Lough. More than half of them died of hunger on the way. ...

Day 181 - 28 August - Not a good start to today

A travel blog entry by wagaitwanderers

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... it looks like it could fall off the cliff anyday. Up the paddock from the library is the manor house called Downhill Castle. Would have been a very snazzy home back then.

Drove on down through Letterkenny bypassed Donegal and stopped at Ballina (not the one in New South Wales silly) for an early dinner in a lovely pub, watched Donegal get beaten by Dublin 8-6 in Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) football ...

Thanks Magella

A travel blog entry by leann-robyn

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Another island recommendation. We lucked out again and as we drove closer to the island, the sky cleared up and we yet again were lucky enough to have another good weather day for island exploring. We didn't stay on the island but only because the hostels were all booked up. If given the choice, we would’ve!

Thanking Magella who didn't lead us astray,
Leann and ...

The Quiet Man

A travel blog entry by leann-robyn

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... in Cong in 1952 and the town’s main claim to fame. It stars Ireland's starlet, Maureen O’Hara and American film legend, John Wayne. Having attended some of Maureen O’Hara’s Classic Film Festival earlier this summer in Glengarrif, and neither of us having seen it before, we figured it’d be worth a watch. A few hours later we were second guessing our decision.

Quietly putting the Quiet Man back on the shelf indefinitely,
Robyn and ...

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