BS: Co. Leitrim/Drumshanbo

Subject: BS: Co. Leitrim/Drumshanbo
From: Sorcha
Date: 27 Feb 06 - 07:17 PM

Do we know anyone there? My MiL will be spending a couple weeks there sometime this year....reccomendations? She doesn't drink or smoke, but enjoys the music.

Subject: RE: BS: Co. Leitrim/Drumshanbo
From: Divis Sweeney
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 04:04 AM

Sorcha, It's a great little place, a little quiet this time of year. Well known for music in the local pubs. Throughout the summer there are nightly sessions from Thursday to Monday.Two great bars are Conway's and The Mountain Tavern.In July the village holds the Joe Mooney Summer School.This is a week of traditional music classes and set dancing,great craic.They got a lot of European money in to develope the waterways. She has to visit the beautiful Lough Allen.They also used to mine coal there, the pits and trolleys are all still intact, think they mined up until about ten years ago. The name Drumshanbo translates as "the back of the old cow's arse". The whole County of Leitrim is beautiful. I would advise she visits Achill Island in County Mayo. It's about an hour and a half's drive from where she is staying. I have visited all 32 counties of Ireland, and to me anyway, Achill Ireland is about as near to heaven as you will find.
Good luck.

Subject: RE: BS: Co. Leitrim/Drumshanbo
From: Ella who is Sooze
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 04:22 AM

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

Subject: RE: BS: Co. Leitrim/Drumshanbo
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 05:54 AM

Try to see the W B Yeats statue in Sligo, it's an elegant beast, and though you can't really see them in the picture it has lines of words written all over it, intentionally not courtesy of the graffitti epidemic that's sweeping this world.
Giok

Subject: RE: BS: Co. Leitrim/Drumshanbo
From: Sorcha
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 05:38 PM

Bump

Subject: RE: BS: Co. Leitrim/Drumshanbo
From: Ella who is Sooze
Date: 01 Mar 06 - 02:52 AM

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Bump?

eh? :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Co. Leitrim/Drumshanbo
From: My guru always said
Date: 11 Apr 06 - 08:59 AM

Echoing 'Ella who is Suze' words, Drumshanbo is a Fab place for music & singing.

Went there about 10 years ago and managed to find the pub up in the hills & also saw Sharon Shannon playing from the back of a lorry in the town square. I'd managed to go there in the music week without realising, how lucky was that? Also managed to find a very good CD locally of the Drumshanbo Traditional Music Group - well worth a listen!

Subject: RE: BS: Co. Leitrim/Drumshanbo
From: Geoff Wallis
Date: 11 Apr 06 - 01:36 PM

Sadly, Drumshanbo is no longer a great place for music and singing outside Joe Mooney week or the Tional festival in June.

Few of the pubs host sessions, though Olivia D's is worth a try on Fridays and The Mountain Tavern is still going strong on Wednesdays.

As for Sligo town, the Yeats statue was demolished by a car last summer.

One 'must see' attraction is the Arigna Mining Experience, some six or so kilometres to the northwest.

Subject: RE: BS: Co. Leitrim/Drumshanbo
From: My guru always said
Date: 11 Apr 06 - 05:40 PM

Sad to hear that Goff, but thanks for up to date info!

Subject: RE: BS: Co. Leitrim/Drumshanbo
From: Ella who is Sooze
Date: 12 Apr 06 - 08:32 AM

ahhh... that's the one, The mountain tavern... fab place. Would also recommend a drive in to the fermanagh hills... gorg!

EWIS

Subject: RE: BS: Co. Leitrim/Drumshanbo
From: Geoff Wallis
Date: 12 Apr 06 - 01:35 PM

Who's 'Goff'?

Subject: RE: BS: Co. Leitrim/Drumshanbo
From: GUEST,DannyC
Date: 12 Apr 06 - 03:50 PM

'Goff' hosts a sale in Naas home of the Orby.   I thought you knew that...

Subject: RE: BS: Co. Leitrim/Drumshanbo
From: My guru always said
Date: 12 Apr 06 - 05:26 PM

Oops, sorry Geoff, fingers ran away too fast & unchecked. Apologies...