Ireland - Youth & Adventure Buyers Guide 2018/2019

Head straight for Achill Island. Be sure to check out the haunting Deserted Village at the base of Slievemore Mountain or continue to the end of the road to the magnificent Keem Bay. Here you can explore one of Ireland’s official Blueways with snorkelling and kayaking operators on site with everything you need. If you are heading north, make for the furthest tip of the remote Mullet peninsula. Here you can enjoy the guided Lighthouse Tour with stories from the Blackrock and Eagle Island lighthouses and tales of their keepers. Dinner and overnight Achill DAY 5 WILD ATLANTICWAY Return to mainland. Head for the Neolithic site at the Céide Fields in Co Mayo. 6,000 years old and the oldest known field systems in the world. Remains of stone field walls, houses and megalithic tombs are preserved beneath a blanket of peat. Continue to Strandhill and explore the beach, a mecca for surfers. Enjoy a guided Seaweed walk and seafood tasting on Culeenamore beach, reminicent of Ireland’s earliest Seafood Takeaway with Seatrails . Lunch in Strandhill. Travel Sligo and check out the story of WB Yeats at the Yeats Memorial Building and at The Model gallery in Sligo. Continue to Lissadell House and Gardens, the childhood home of Constance Markievicz and her sister Eva Gore Booth. Constance was one of the leaders of the 1916 Rising and a suffragist.WB Yeats was friendly with both sisters and immortalised Lissadell in his poetry. Head for Donegal Town. Meet the craft makers at the Craft Village in Donegal town. Explore the coastline taking in scenic Donegal Bay views and take a photo fo the 200 seals living on seal island on the with the Donegal BayWaterbus; and enjoy a good ole Irish singalong on the return journey. Dinner and B&B overnight Donegal town DAY 6 WILD ATLANTICWAY Travel to the Donegal Gaeltacht. Learn about the Irish language and cultural activities in Oideas Gael . Experience Europe’s highest sea cliffs at Sliabh Liag Cliffs for a hiking experience with a difference, take an archaeological tour or sit back and take in this striking view where land is carved by sea on a boat tour under the cliffs. Lunch stop Sliabh Liag. Wander around the castle at Glenveagh National Park which is hauntingly beautiful. Its summits and crags resemble parts of the Arctic. Spot the red deer, falcons and recently reintroduced golden eagles. Or Take the ferry to Gaelic speaking Tory Island and meet the King of Tory Island, artist and musician Patsy Dan Rogers who has no formal powers but welcomes people to the island! Dinner and overnight Letterkenny DAY 7 DEPART FOR DUBLIN 103 Céide Fields visitors centre Strandhill, a mecca for surfers Lissadell House Sliabh Liag Cliffs Glenveagh National Park