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EZTrip.com International Destination Guide and Hotel Listings
Hotel Listings & Destination Guide for Europe & Russia - Europe - Ireland - Sligo and Leitrim - County Sligo - North of Sligo town - From Raghly Point to Mullaghmore - Grange, Moneygold and Cliffony
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GRANGE, MONEYGOLD AND CLIFFONY |
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GRANGE
, five miles north of Drumcliff, there's not much apart from an old boys' bar off to the right, over the bridge. However, if you venture inland past the pub, you'll get a changing perspective of Benbulben as you approach the Gleniff Horseshoe, a scenic road that runs along a glen on the flank of the Dartry range and gives easy access to the top of Benbulben.
MONEYGOLD
, a mile north of Grange, offers basic accommodation at the
Karuna Flame Hostel
(tel 071/63337; phone ahead during low season or if you want a private room).
CLIFFONY
, about three miles north of Moneygold, is remarkable for the Creevykeel Court Tomb (just past the village by the roadside), one of the most extensive Neolithic sites in the country, comprising two roofless tombs within a stone court. The graves, which were originally enclosed in a barrow, probably date from between 3500 and 3000 BC, and it's easy to see in this ancient evidence of human presence a reflection of a power in the landscape that has gone on working ever since, right down to the poetry of Yeats and beyond. Bundoran, the first town over the county border in Donegal
, is eight miles northeast along the N15 road.
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