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For 8days of your stay you'll stay in Sligo town, after every excursion you'll be dropped back at your hotel where you'll be free to roam the town with its many restaurants and bars to enjoy... By the end of the tour you will learn everything about its history since its founding in 1245, you'll also learn of the local folklore and ghost stories...
Our first tour date is the 1st August - 9th August 2024.
For more information email me at [email protected]
Small group tours
Why should you choose a small grouped tour experience?
Many large coaches can't make it down those small little roads (boreen's) where Ireland's most hidden treasures lie... Our buses can take you down those little winding roads to show you a part of Ireland very few visitors see.
This gives you a more in depth and intimate touring experience.
Special offers for 2024 coming soon, keep an eye on our website or message us for more information.
On your visit to Sligo you'll take a comfortable tour aboard the tour boat 'The Rose of Innisfree', you will discover the breathtaking landscape of Lough Gill, and learn about its local history, myths and legends. The lake is about 8km long and 2km wide. The views from the lake are breathtaking... It's not hard to wonder why Sligo is sometimes referred to as "The Killarney of the West". You can relax on the boat and enjoy a refreshment of tea, coffee or beer, whatever you choose while listening to stories with an amazing backdrop.
The Rose of Innisfree Tourboat
Let me introduce myself, my name is Adrian O'Neill, as a kid I was obsessed with history and folklore.
In college I studied archaeology, history and classical studies (ancient greek and Roman studies). Every day I loved reading something new about the Northwest of Ireland.
During your tour I will tell you stories of the faeries, mythology and local lore. You'll have an authentic experience like no other, stories that have been collected from those who passed them down. Imagine standing in a beautiful forest by a lake, and hearing a poem recited to you and then told a tale of how it's inspired by the faeries, now that's a trip to remember...
You will be brought to a part of Ireland very few visit.
In 2017 I started doing walking tours, and recently I've started doing 8day itinerary tours of Sligo, Leitrim and Donegal. I work for multiple tour companies. Last year I had our first successful tour of Sligo and the Northwest.
If you or someone you know is interested in a tour of Ireland or the road less traveled, message me for a trip of a lifetime.
Photo of me and my wife Nicola at an Irish festival in Maryland, at USA promoting the company.
My 2024 tour dates will be up soon
One gentleman that you'll hear plenty of on your tour is WB Yeats. William Butler Yeats won the Nobel Peace Prize for Literature on the 14th November 1923. Many of the locations we include inspired his poems. You will have the opportunity to visit these locations and hear why they inspired him. Listen in as we whisk you away with faery stories and mythology of the ancient landscape of Sligo.
Our 2024 tour dates are coming soon.
Ever wonder how sheepdogs herd sheep?
While in Sligo you will witness world renowned sheepdog handler Martin Feeney of Atlantic Sheepdogs and his dogs work together to provide you with a captivating display of teamwork, as you behold firsthand the importance of these beautiful border collies in herding sheep daily on the farm.
Atlantic Sheepdogs overlooks the enchanting Streedagh Beach and is nestled beneath the majestic tabletop of Benbulben Mountain, where the farm has silently soaked up much history on its perch along the Wild Atlantic Way.
2024 dates for our tours coming soon...
Nothing like visiting a castle by a lake...
2024 tour dates coming soon....
Did you know on your tour in Sligo you will hear about smugglers/pirates? How small dwellings were made to help guide ships in and out of port? That these dwellings were also used to detect smuggling ships....?
Photo taken from a local seaside village of Rosses Point.
Find out more....
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One character you'll get to meet during your tour is Michael Quirke, a local famous Sligo storyteller and historian. He'll whisk you away telling you old tales of Irish lore while carving figures from the tales with wood...
Our 2024 dates are coming soon...
2024 is fast approaching. Our tour dates will be up very soon.
Your stay will take place in Sligo town where you'll be free to roam after your excursion each day.
One place you will visit is St Johns Cathedral (pictured below ), where Bram Stoker's Grandmother was laid to rest. His mother Charlotte Blake Thornley lived here through a deadly cholera epidemic in 1832, her nightmare memories she passed onto Bram. Her stories inspired his famous book Dracula.
2024 is coming, and an adventure awaits...
To book a tour or if you have any questions, email me at [email protected]
To the Waters
To the Wild.......
Looking for an adventure? Come join us, we'll take you off the beaten track
Photos by CONDOH Photography
"Let us go forth, the tellers of tales, and seize whatever prey the heart long for, and have no fear.
Everything exists, everything is true, and the earth is only a little dust under our feet."
- WB Yeats
May your joys be as deep as the oceans,
Your troubles as light as its foam,
And may you find sweet peace of mind
Wherever you may roam. - Irish Proverb
Photo of Mullaghmore, Sligo during one of my tours last September
"May today be better than yesterday, but, not as good as tomorrow" - Old Irish proverb
We deal with small groups of people. Ensuring that your experience will be original... You will travel the unbeaten track and see an Ireland very few have seen
If you want a personalized experience, get in contact
An adventure awaits....
"To unpathed waters, undreamed shores."
By William Shakespeare
From The Winter’s Tale, Act 4, Scene 4.
Photo by Avril Glavin images
The new tour season is here Fureys Of Sligo Coach & Chauffeur Service Parke's Castle OPW
To the Waters, To the Wild; come join us....
"Where the wandering water gushes
From the hills above Glen-Car,
In pools among the rushes
That scarce could bathe a star,
We seek for slumbering trout
And whispering in their ears
Give them unquiet dreams;
Leaning softly out
From ferns that drop their tears
Over the young streams
Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world’s more full of weeping than you can understand‘." --- WB Yeats
Photos from Viking Lady Anne
Happy Saint Patrick's Day 🇮🇪🐍☘️
I was delighted to bring Jim and Nancy Farace and their friends to Killaspugbrone in Strandhill, where not only does it have spectacular views of Sligo bay but St Patrick himself visited here.
It was here I told them a few of the stories of St Patrick's journey through Sligo.
As it's nearly St Patrick's Day we've decided to take 10% of our 8day itinerary tour, "The Land of Hearts Desire Tour", where you'll experience the magical landscape of Sligo, Leitrim and Donegal. Our story guides will whisk you away on stories of folklore, old traditions and local history....
Come join us...
To the Waters, To the Wild
Website link is below, to check us out:
https://wildwestirelandtours.com/
The Road Not Taken By Robert Frost
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
Photo by Jim Farace
"Rivers are roads which move, and which carry us whither we desire to go"
Blaise Pascal
Photos of the River Garavogue in Sligo
Are you looking to visit Ireland?
Why not come on a journey where we show you the unbeaten path. A place that inspired famous painters and poets. Ireland's most Ancient West. Where Celtic battles took place. A landscape like no other. Hear the lore of old Ireland at your own pace.
We specialize in small groups, with one bus, one hotel, where you will stay in one location (no need to unpack and pack after returning from every excursion). See Sligo, Leitrim and Donegal for 8days, you'll not regret it.
Every morning you will travel to a new place to see a new part of the the Wild West, with experts in history, archaeology and folklore.
Ireland's hidden secret, the Wild West.
Come Join us
To the Waters, To the Wild
Any queries check the website below or email me personally:
Website:
https://wildwestirelandtours.com/
Email:
[email protected]
Photo by Condoh Photography
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The Wild Swans at Coole by
W.B. Yeats
The trees are in their autumn beauty,
The woodland paths are dry,
Under the October twilight the water
Mirrors a still sky;
Upon the brimming water among the stones
Are nine-and-fifty swans.
The nineteenth autumn has come upon me
Since I first made my count;
I saw, before I had well finished,
All suddenly mount
And scatter wheeling in great broken rings
Upon their clamorous wings.
I have looked upon those brilliant creatures,
And now my heart is sore.
All’s changed since I, hearing at twilight,
The first time on this shore,
The bell-beat of their wings above my head,
Trod with a lighter tread.
Unwearied still, lover by lover,
They paddle in the cold
Companionable streams or climb the air;
Their hearts have not grown old;
Passion or conquest, wander where they will,
Attend upon them still.
But now they drift on the still water,
Mysterious, beautiful;
Among what rushes will they build,
By what lake’s edge or pool
Delight men’s eyes when I awake some day
To find they have flown away?
"The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper."
W.B. Yeats
"I, a wandering wanderer, who finds peace in green places,
Far from prying eyes and familiar faces.
I long for leaves that litter the empty way,
For that’s the path that I wish to stray.
A belonging that feels right,
The wooded wood within my sight;
To lose myself, to be alone,
To be within myself, to be unknown.
A whistling wind, a pleasant sigh,
Rays pierce through the treetops from way up high.
The peaceful nowhere, all is good,
I, a wandering wanderer, in a whispering wood."
By Adrian O’Neill
The photo is of our guide Martin Enright walking with Cindy Bierer Niemiec down a country lane in Sligo during our tour in September.
For still there are so many things that I have never seen: in every wood in every spring, there is a different green.
- JRR Tolkien
Glencar, photo by Jim Farace
A lovely gift we received this evening from Nancy and Jim Farace. Nancy and Jim were part of my first group I brought to our wonderful part of the world. An amazing gift
An adventure awaits...
https://wildwestirelandtours.com/
Photos of my first group in 2022, what an adventure ☘️🇮🇪
Looking forward to 2023
There's something sleeping in my breast, that 'wakens only in the West,
There's something in the core of Me, that needs the West to set it free."
By Oliver St.John Gogarty
Photos by Jim Farace
Hope everyone had a great Christmas and may the New Year bring you happiness, peace, and prosperity. Wishing you all a joyous 2023.
In 2022, my first tour was a big success and our trip to Maryland Irish Festival went extremely well.
Looking forward to 2023 and sharing the Wild West with others.
Happy New Year 🥂🍾🥂🍾
Tshirts have arrived 😊
Had a nice delivery this week
Just myself going to see if tea in a field was happening
Take the less travelled road...
Author Kevin Connolly reciting The Fiddler of Dooney at Dooney Rock
This weekend will be my very first international tour that will span over 9days, and woah they have no idea what they are in for, I've a great number of suprises up my sleeves.
Here's one of them, on Day 2, my guide will be no other than writer Kevin Connolly who in 1982, he opened the Winding Stair Bookshop and Café in Dublin, and in 1995, a second branch in Sligo. Selling the bookshops later on.
After a decade in the US, he returned to live in Sligo. I've worked with Kevin helping out with a project with the Yeats Society not long ago, we've both had long chats about all things Yeats and was delighted that when I asked if he'd do a tour for me he said yes. Kevin has written books on the Yeats family, in 'Yeats and Sligo' and 'Arise and Go', thoroughly looking forward to tagging along.
Here's a sneakpeak at the itinerary:
"Day 2: Tour with Kevin Connolly, Monday 12th September
09:30: - Introductory talk in the Yeats Memorial building (30-45mins)
Depart on bus at10:20 to:
Lough Gill
Dooney Rock
The Lake Isle of Inishfree
(passing through the village of Dromahair)
Glencar Waterfall
Drumcliff and Yeats’s grave
Rosses Point"
Return to the Glasshouse
Sligo
Sligo
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