Lough Arrow Touring & Caravaning Park Ballynarry, Lough Arrow, Co. Sligo. Tel: 071 96 66018
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Sites to Visit in SligoLough Arrow Touring Park is an ideal base for visitors, where you have the best of both worlds, a quiet rural location surrounded by beautiful scenery with ancient sites dating back long before the pyramids, Abbey's and Monasteries from more recent times all within a short drive.
Sligo Town 20 mins. and Carrick on Shannon 15 mins. for shopping, pubs and disco's For the young at heart (a bus leaves at the Rockview Hotel on Sat. night for Carrick Nite Club for the younger of your group and drops them back to the site. Lakes & CoastMassive Atlantic rollers crash in along the coast at Strandhill (20 mins.) because there's simply nothing to stop them. America is the next point west. Strandhill boasts a challenging 18-hole links set amongst the dunes, with Knockarea, the fabled mountain, overlooking the course. Queen Maeve, who ruled the province of Connacht in the 1st century A.D., is said to be buried in the mountaintop cairn. There is a sign posted trail to the top which offers wonderful views. Rosses Point 20 mins from site with its miles of sandy coast line, is also a Blue Flag Beach, it also host's a Golf Course.
The beach at Strandhill is claimed (by those who should know) as the best surfing beach in Europe
Inland water too, for fishing there is no better place to be, for coarse, lake, sea angling you are spoiled for choice, Lough Key, (5 mins), Lough Arrow with the Bricklieve Mountains overlooking. Lough Gara guarded by the Curlew Mountains. To the north, a virtually uninhabited coast but with the tabletop of Benbulben as the back-cloth. Mullaghmore Head is stunning, ditto Cullumore. Lough Gill is the location of that most famous Isle o Inishfree by W.B. Yeats. It's all there and much more, waiting to be discovered. Sunset over Lough Arrow and the Bricklieve Mountains
The William Butler Yeats Connection
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Contact: Mary & Terry Wilson, Lough Arrow Touring ParkBallynarry, Lough Arrow, Co. Sligo. Tel: ++353 (0)71 96 66018 Mobile: 086 2194005Email: latp@eircom.net Last modified: October 04, 2007 |