Boating Guides and Trips

Trips
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Sierra Literary Trip - Lough Gill Boat trip
by stormthoughts on Jun 20, 2011
Connacht, County Sligo, Ireland
Boating | 8.9 miles
This was a wonderful trip that began in Dublin with James Joyce, taking in Bloom's day of course [June 16th], and visiting the Arann Islands to see where JM Synge got his inspiration for many of his plays. No trip would be complete without a study of Yeats and so we went to Yeats Country, Sligo, "The Land Of Heart's Desire," while there we took a trip on Lough Gill, to see...
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"Sulis" boat trip Leitrim to Carrick on Shannon
by stormthoughts on Oct 13, 2010
River shannon, Leitrim _ Roscommon, Ireland
Boating | 11.6 miles
A flat calm foggy October day. A strange beauty about the River Shannon today. Our last boat trip on the river this year. I only GPS'sd from Leitrim Village back to Carrick on Shannon. We have travelled this way many times and always a quiet beauty found... the water perhaps..... or the knowledge that we travel a waterway that people have used since time began. The magic of Lough Key to the...