WATCH: What are these mysterious mounds on Aughris Head?
WATCH: What are these mysterious mounds on Aughris Head?
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What are these mysterious mounds on Sligo’s Aughris Head?
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What are these mysterious mounds on Sligo’s Aughris Head?
May they be the stays of 5,000-year-old a hoop fort?
“Now we have had lecturers down right here finding out it, the mounds are believed to be from that period,” Michael Flatley of the Aughris improvement committee has mentioned.
Or have been they platforms for stacking and drying seaweed, as Elizabeth FitzPatrick instructed within the Journal of Irish Archaeology?
Both approach, James Dennison’s scrumptious drone video poses a tempting puzzle… and gives the proper excuse to go to an under-rated stretch of the Sligo coast.
Aughris Head is a Wild Atlantic Method Discovery Level about 6km off the N59 between Sligo and Ballina. It may be reached by way of a 4km stroll that begins at Dunmoran Strand, continues previous the native Seashore Bar and skirts round a part of the headland, together with the mysterious ringfort in Dennison’s video.
Aughris Head. Screengrab: James Dennison / Atlantic Gentle Productions
Stopping on the ridge-like stays gives a chance not just for some archaeological hypothesis, however to take in killer views of Sligo Bay and Ben Bulben.
The video comes as South & West Sligo Tourism, a neighborhood community of 40 native companies, releases its newest ‘Sligo’s Hidden Gems’ brochure.
It focuses on user-generated content material, with images starting from seaweed baths, strolling trails and surf spots to a reproduction early 20th-century cottage created close to the Caves of Keash (pictured beneath).
The community has been working to spice up rural tourism by way of initiatives like booklets, maps, trails and a #MySligo advertising and marketing marketing campaign, in addition to coaching native companies to current and promote themselves extra successfully.
Nuala Mullaney assembly Pat Ward for tea on the 20th century duplicate cottage Pat has full at Fox’s Den in Co Sligo.(thebeachbarsligo.com)
Its efforts have been recognised this February, when South & West Sligo Tourism gained ‘Greatest Tourism Initiative’ on the Nationwide Group & Council Awards.
“The entire function was for the companies and neighborhood to work collectively to draw extra guests and profit the entire area,” says Paul Taylor, the community’s chair.
“The imaginative and prescient has now develop into a actuality.”
NB: Security comes first on a stroll, regardless of how simple. Test the climate, depart phrase of the place you’re going and if you’ll be again, and pack good. The Aughris Head stroll is a coastal path, so train due warning and care.
For extra, see southsligotourism.ie and sligowalks.ie.
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