Sorcha.

It's fantastic village. The drumshanbo week is brilliant and manys the time I've played all thrhough the night in music sessions and had me breakfast in a pub! You can go swimming in Lough Allen, and experience the strange peat bog lakes to swim in... Really really cold but then because the peat is rotting below there are warm pockets of water to swim through and it's lovely and refreshing.

Sligo is only an hour or so away and worth a visit and so to are the gorg hills of Fermanagh.

It holds many great memories for me that little town, and there are plenty of places to stay during the music week (people open their homes for B&B). I used to stay with a lovely lady on Convent Street, she was nice. If you contact the committee of Joe Mooney summer school they'll help with accomodation if you can't find any. http://www.joemooneysummerschool.com/

Lots of O'Carolan history around there, and lots of standing stones and mysteries. The nearby water ways are really nice, and if you have a car, then drive out to the seaweed baths at strandhill - really relaxing http://www.celticseaweedbaths.com/

The music is fantastic in Drunshanbo during the week and after, there's also a gorg little pub in the mountains where there's sessions and used to be a organic restaurant too, run by a couple of sisters. I don't know if it is still there, but it's great.

Also, Yeats was born nearby in the shadow of Benbullen a great area to go to... http://www.yeats-sligo.com/

Oh, I'm sooooo jealous. It's a fab place. Very relaxed.

E/W/I/S