Local Activities
GOLF
Castle Dargan Golf Course (10 mins)
Castle Dargan's Historic Estate in Ballygawley, Co. Sligo has an 18 Hole Championship Golf Course and a destination Spa. The course is set on 170 Acres of rolling parkland in a magnificent country setting on the North West Coast of Ireland in the famous Yeats Country of Co. Sligo.
www.castledargan.com
Rosses Point Golf Club (20 mins)
County Sligo Golf Club is situated at Rosses Point, a seaside village eight kilometres north west of Sligo town, and is one of the oldest and best known links courses in Ireland. Founded in 1894 on land leased from Henry Middleton, an uncle of W.B Yeats the famous poet and Nobel Prize winner for literature and his brother Jack B Yeats the noted landscape painter.
www.countysligogolfclub.ie
Enniscrone Golf Club (45mins)
Founded in 1918 and redesigned by Eddie Hackett in 1974 and by Donald Steel in 2001, this championship course is one of Ireland's finest links courses. Apart from the championship links known as The Dunes, there is also the splendid 9 hole Scurmore.
www.enniscronegolf.com
Strandhill Golf Club (15 mins)
www.strandhillgc.com
SPA’s
Castle Dargan’s Icon Spa (10 mins)
Castle Dargan’s Icon Spa treatment suites offer a wide range of therapies massages and facials. As Sligo’s first Destination Medi Spa, the Icon Spa also provides a wide range of aesthetic beauty treatments.
www.castledargan.com/icon_spa.php
Strandhill Celtic Seaweed Baths (15 mins)
A truly unique and rejeuvenating experience and not to be missed when in this part of Ireland.
www.voya.ie
HORSE RIDING
Markree Castle Riding Stables(10 mins)
It would be hard to find a more idyllic location for a riding school than the one at Markree Castle. A picturesque castle and acres of parkland filled with graceful mature trees surround these stables.
www.markreeridingstables.com
SURFING
Surfing at Strandhill (15mins)
Strandhill is famous for Surfing. It’s a particularly popular activity with visiting families and people that are just looking for something different. This surf school also runs a kids summer camp.
PUBS
Fantastic local pubs with traditional Irish Music. Durkins pub in the village is particularly good for that on a Friday night from 10 onwards. You can easily walk there from the house.
RESTAURANTS
The Waterfront, Rosses Point (25mins), Monmartre (French cuisine), Sligo (15mins), Markree Castle, (10 mins), Osties, Rosse's Point (25mins), The Strand, Strandhill (15mins) and Smugglers Creek (45 minutes, serving Oysters and Guinness)
