RAGHLY HARBOUR, COUNTY SLIGO

Hello and welcome to your virtual Ireland walk while we wait out this isolation.. today, I’m taking you out to tiny Raghly Harbour, County Sligo, and we travel around this beautiful coastline, which has beautiful views of Knocknarea Mountain (Cnoc Na Rí) where the formidable Queen Maeve (Medb) is supposed to be buried. It was a beautiful blue-sky day today, the Atlantic was looking spirited and flirty, especially around the astonishing blow-hole – I am not sure what it is named- I’ve read ‘Pigeon Holes’ and ‘Punch Bowls’ but not clear if this is the same place… the other mountains you will see in the distance are Ben Bulben and Ben Wiskin, (the location of our Day 1 hike). I left some of the sequential photos of the ocean in there- possibly repetitive, but hopefully giving you a sense of the energy and freshness that prevailed,There was a lovely contrast between the calm of the harbour and the brisk friskiness of the waves on the exposed side of this tiny peninsula, but every corner brought another heart-stopping view. Ireland is so beautiful, and so undiscovered! Enjoy today’s walk with me, see you tomorrow!