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Park BridgeBridge · 1443 ydExplorer Tom Park Bridge in Ballyguin has an arch that curves like a perfect smile. It’s got rock-faced skin and a very elegant attitude for a simple crossing. Pack a picnic and an excuse to sit nearby.
bridge1.3 miExplorer Tom Tower in Turlough is the only thing left from an early medieval monastery that probably smelled terrible. The shortcut up there isn't really a shortcut at all, trust me. Grand place for a sulk or a snog, your call.
Explorer Tom The country-life museum near Castlebar will make me reconsider every time I complained that an old tool looked awkward. Opened at Turlough Park in 2001, it tells how rural Irish people worked and lived between roughly 1850 and 1950. Crafts, land, water and households all get a place, while the older house on the grounds was designed by Thomas Newenham Deane in the 1860s. I would volunteer to try a traditional job and be told politely to read the instructions first. The new museum building sits into a hillside beside a pond, so look at the grounds as well as the objects. Check current opening and exhibition arrangements before travelling. Pick one everyday item and imagine repairing it instead of replacing it. The people represented here often had to do exactly that.
Ballylahan Castle in RuinsCastle, Anglo-Norman masonry castle · 3.9 miExplorer Tom Ballylahan Castle in Ruins would survive a zombie attack by just letting them trip over its own massive stone foundations and get confused by the layout. Ideal place to rehearse an excuse for being late.
Ballylahan CastleCastle · 3.9 mi
Black mulberry4.9 miExplorer Tom Black mulberry would use a lotto win to buy every single berry in County Mayo and eat them all at once. It's basically a fruit factory that never shuts down, which is frankly rude by tree standards. Look up, the best bit is always higher than you think.
FarbreigaMountain / peak · 5.1 mi
Garden of RemembranceMemorial · 6.1 mi
BurrenMountain / peak · 6.1 miMore archaeology and monuments in County Mayo · All of County Mayo
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