Today I once again joined the Wild West Irish Tours for the day, thanks to Michael for inviting me to tag along. Today we went on The Rose of Innisfree and took a cruise around lovely Lough Gill. We were joined on board by Mary Kennedy who was filming for RTE’s Nationwide.
George was a wonderful Captain and told us all about Lough Gill and W. B. Yeats as well as reciting poems and getting us to join in.
We sailed alongside the Isle of Innisfree. It’s a very small island and I’m inclined to believe that W. B. Yeats was writing about another island possibly Beezie’s or maybe Church Island. I suppose we’ll never know for sure.
We also got to see Dooney Rock and Slish Wood. I was very grateful that the boat was calm and I didn’t have a repeat performance of the last time I joined the Wild West Irish Tours to Inismurray Island.
There was only one thing I didn’t like about the tour of Lough Gill and that’s St. Angela’s College. I think it really is a blot on an otherwise beautiful landscape and I don’t know how they got permission to build it there.
My thanks to Wild West Irish Tours for letting me join them. The rest of my photos are here.
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Sounds like a lovely trip and you were blessed with clear skies. Great photos, thanks for introducing me to somewhere in Ireland that I haven’t been!
xx Jazzy
Thanks Jazzy, it was a great trip xx