Colmcille Naofa, Rathcormack, Co. Sligo

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The Barnacle and Lissadell

Lissadell has long been the Barnacle goose's mainland headquarters and although numbers dropped from about 1,000 to 350-400 in the early 1970's they have increased again to 1,500 thanks to the protection and habitats management.  The Barnacle Geese's favorite feeding ground is in Lissadell Co. Sligo.   There is a tree hut down there especially built for observing these geese.

  The Barnacle Geese are small with black and white feathers and a distinctive white face and black neck.  they graze on clover and clover roots.  They also eat seeds and oats.  Barnacle Geese go to Inishmurray to sleep and then go to the Sea Field in the morning.

Written by Suzanne and Alex

Glencar Lake

On Glencar Lake there are two Crannogs. In the spring swans come to lay eggs on the crannogs.  The Drumcliffe river flows out of the lake.  The river flows through Rathcormac and Drumcliffe.  W. B. Yeats wrote a poem about Glencar Lake called The Stolen Child.

The Stolen Child

W.B. Yeats

Where the wandering water gushes

From the hills above Glencar,

In ponds among the rushes

That scarce could bathe a star,

We seek for slumbering trout

And whispering in their ears

Give them unquiet dreams.

Written by Elaine and Craig

William Butler yeats

William Butler Yeats was born in Dublin in 1895. He spent a lot of his summers in Sligo and he enjoyed staying there.  As a teenager he began to write poetry.  Some of his poems were about Sligo and this is an extract from the Lake Isle of Inisfree.

I will arise and go now and go to Inisfree

And a small cabin build there,

Of clay and wattles made

Nine bean rows will I have there,

And a hive for the honeybee

And live alone in the bee loud glade.

In 19045 he founded the Abbey Theatre which is in Dublin.  In 1923 Yeats won the Nobel prize for literature.  Sadly Yeats died in France in 1939 but he was reburied in Drumcliff in 1948.

Written by Susan and Maria