Day 18
Woke up to drizzle this morning, so we canned our idea of taking a boat trip round to the Slieve League cliffs. Such a shame!
Headed north again through the Glengesh Pass with low clouds shrouding villages and surrounding mountains.
A short detour just before Ardara brought us to Assarancagh Waterfall.
By now it had fined up and we took another detour off the main road along the seashore to Dunmore Head, passing this rather random little sculpture.
Further north, the landscape on ‘The Rosses’ twists and turns beside scattered communities, and a boggy, then sandy shoreline.
Satisfying our daily need for a lighthouse, we drove as far north as Fanor Head, wild and desolate, before heading south.
Our home tonight is at Rathmelton, a pretty Georgian town on the River Lennon. As luck would have it, our visit has coincided with the Lennon Festival, so the town was ‘buzzing’. As well as the festival, we discovered that an inhabitant of the town, Dave Gallagher, captained the All Blacks after he emigrated to NZ as a child. He was killed in WW1, but there is a great memorial to him in the village.
The Bridge Hotel was offering live music so we settled in for dinner. Pity the music didn’t start until 11.15pm! That’s considered normal around here! We stumbled home, absolutely stuffed!
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