Parks And Gardens

Kylemore Abbey is the Monastic home of the Benedictine Order of Nuns in Ireland.

This great stone castle was founded in the early 13th century and became the principal residence of the Kildare branch of the Geraldines.

The great semi-fortified house at Portumna was built before 1618 by Richard Burke or de Burgo, 4th Earl of Clanricarde.

Thoor Ballylee is well known as the summer home of the poet W.B. Yeats and as the setting of his poems, “The Winding Stair” and “The Tower”.

The Castle Park includes all the walled demesne parkland to the south and the formal terraced gardens to the north .There is a small burial ground, a woodland walk, lake and a childrens playground.

You will be captivated from the moment you arrive when you get your first taste of honey rich mead.

A restored plantation caslte of the early seventeenth century, picturesquely situated on the shores of Lough Gill.

Robert Gore Booth (1805 – 1876) was born in a three story Regency style house with bow windows on the shores of Drumcliff Bay, by the site of the present walled Lower Garden.

Sligo Folk Park is a community based attraction provides a true experience of rural life and Irish heritage at the turn of the late 19th Century

Loughcrew is rich in historical, archaeological, religious and natural interest. One of ancient Ireland’s major roads passes through Loughcrew, crossing the great Road of the Chariots nearby.