title	Manorhamilton, Sligo and Trá na Srithidí, Ireland - 26th August 2026
intro	We're staying in student accommodation at St. Angela's campus of the Atlantic Technical University of Sligo, and after a walk down to the lake to look for an alleged "famine house", which we fail to find, we head off to Manorhamilton for a poke around and to do lunch with the family in Eight Degrees West, formerly known as Ósta in W8. After that, we drive back to St. Angela's before getting the bus from there into Sligo where we meet up with James, Lua and Nick for dinner at Hargadon Brothers restaurant on O'Connell Street. The following day, we check out, head back to Sligo for a look at the abbey and then drive up the road to Streedagh Beach, just outside Grange.
imgp2513	There's a ring of luminous scum around the lake
imgp2514	A gate in the woods
imgp2519	Isobel on the path around the lake
imgp2520	James and Isobel in Eight Degrees West
imgp2521	Harry on the youth table
imgp2522	There's a classic early 90s Golf with red plates
imgp2523	Some sort of flags installation up at W8
imgp2524	The back of some buildings on Main Street
imgp2526	Harry waves from the nostly-teens table
imgp2527	The yoots hang around near SuperValu
imgp2528	A closed-down hardware shop
imgp2530	A derelict building in Manorhamilton
imgp2531	Philly, James and Isobel pose for a band photo
imgp2532	The first Protestant church in Ireland
imgp2533	Mad building feature in Manorhamilton
imgp2534	The old Manorhamilton courthouse
imgp2537	Dereliction on Creamery Road
imgp2538	The house next to the Gaelscoil has collapsed
imgp2540	Isobel chats to Philly and James in the car park
imgp2541	Keenan's butchers commemorates Seán Mac Diamarda
imgp2544	The closed Mac Magnuis in Manorhamilton
imgp2545	Another closed-down bar: Gilbride's
imgp2546	The view from the apartment's front window
imgp2548	A nice original window in St. Angela's
imgp2549	There's a Scary Mary in the undergrowth
imgp2550	Harry waits by the bus stop at St. Angela's
imgp2551	A jumble of stuff in an old building
imgp2552	Isobel checks her phone at the bus stop
imgp2553	Fred pays for his bus ticket
imgp2554	Menus are checked out in Hargadon Bros
imgp2555	Nick, Lua and James in Hargadon's
imgp2557	The corridor through Hargadon's
imgp2558	Fred gets a photo of James and Isobel
imgp2561	Hargadon Brothers on O'Connell Street in Sligo
imgp2562	The bar at Hargadon Brothers
imgp2563	Pictures on a wall in the old pub
imgp2564	Hargadon Bros etched in glass
imgp2565	Hargadon's bogs mask their wall-urinal origins
imgp2566	The yoots mill around in Hargadon's
imgp2567	Cavanagh is yet another closed-down pub
imgp2568	An unrelated Cavanaghs with giant pot plants
imgp2571	We walk along the banks of the Garavogue
imgp2575	Swans near the Markievicz Bridge in Sligo
imgp2576	Swans with their heads down looking for weeds
imgp2580	The 17th Century Markievicz Bridge
imgp2581	Swans in the sunset
imgp2582	A giant Sligo sign
imgp2586	The Glasshouse and the Garavogue river
imgp2589	Swans are actually enjoying white-water surfing
imgp2595	A statue of W. B. Yeats in Sligo town
imgp2596	Isobel picks something up in the apartment
imgp2597	Our student apartment lounge and kitchen
imgp2599	The boys pile out of the lift with bags of food
imgp2600	We get a few things from the "campsite" shop
imgp2601	The statue of Lady Erin in Sligo
imgp2604	Fred tries out some musical spoons
imgp2608	O'Connell Street in Sligo
imgp2609	A derelict newsagent
imgp2611	Some 60s architecture near the old post office
imgp2612	The Bistro Bianconi in the "Italian quarter"
imgp2613	Derelict offices in Sligo
imgp2615	The ruins of Sligo Abbey
imgp2619	Stone columns in Sligo Abbey
imgp2623	The cloisters of Sligo Abbey
imgp2625	Some mediaeval features in stone
imgp2627	Bright green tiny ferns grow out of the wall
imgp2630	Fred flips a coin to decide stuff
imgp2631	Fred picks up a coin
imgp2634	Part of the ruins of Sligo Abbey
imgp2638	The gang on the beach at Streedagh
imgp2643	We set up in the dunes
imgp2652	Behind an tSrithideach
imgp2653	James and Isobel are dots in the sea
imgp2654	Walkers on Streedagh beach
imgp2657	Nick gets dragged around for a bit
imgp2658	Dramatic hills behind Streedagh beach
imgp2660	Ben Bulben looms out of the haze
imgp2667	Lua and Nick do high fives