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Guided Walking Holidays in Mayo, Ireland

 

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  • Benlevy
  • Ceathu Thaidgh
  • Sheskin Forest

Walking Holidays Ireland

Welcome to guided hill walking holidays in Ireland.

At Tourism Pure Walking Holidays, I offer you guided walking holidays and one-day hikes in the wonderful, wild, rugged county of Mayo, in the West of Ireland.

You are welcome to join small hiking groups on a walking holiday to some of the most magnificent and inspiring areas of our west coast county.

I am committed to offering my guests a fun hiking vacation in wild Mayo, while adhering to the principles of sustainable tourism. Delighted to have you visit my walking holidays Ireland site. Give me a call !

Je parle français. Ich spreche deutsch.

Call on : Tel. 353 – 94 – 9027797.   Mob. 353 – 86 – 8318748.

E-mail on : info {at} tourismpurewalking(.)com

  • Lough Mask, Clonbur Wood
  • Iniskea
  • Corranabinnia towards Achill

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White Tailed Eagle Weekend

On Friday last, I tweeted the following :

“Not 1 but 2 WT Eagles above me in Killarney NP ! I will die happy.”

I was out walking around the lakes in Kerry, under the cover of mostly oak trees. When I emerged from beneath early summer’s developing canopy, I looked up to see a pair of magnificent White Tailed Eagles soaring up in the thermals above my head. It was a beautiful, sunny, dry and warmish day. I lay down on my back on the forest track and had a wonderful view of these magnificent birds through my binoculars for quite a few minutes. They were huge – we’ve all heard they’re called “flying barndoors”. I had seen eagles before in France, Spain and Poland, but nothing as big as these guys, and to think they’re possibly still immature. Had they even grown to their maximum size ?

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Ringfort in Mayo – Lios na Gaoithe

Hidden in the middle of one of Mayo’s countless conifer plantations lies one of the true jewels of the county. Lios na Gaoithe (The Fort of the Wind) is a large ringfort constructed sometime from the late Iron Age to the early medieval period. Scholars now tend to lean towards the latter being more likely as the period of ringforts in Ireland (500 to 1,000 AD).

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Spring’s Lovely Wildflowers

Perhaps the most lovely thing about being out walking at this particular time of year is the renewed colour all around as the spring wildflowers come out and begin to dominate our forests, hedges and verges.

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Weekend Walk at Carrowtigue (An Ceathrú Thaidhg)

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Carrowtigue cliff top walk

I’ve added the loop walk at Carrowtigue to the walking schedule for this coming Saturday. Located in the northwest tip of Mayo, Carrowtigue offers a lovely 3 to 4 hour loop walk on cliff-tops along towards Benwee Head.

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Walking The Bangor Trail with Lenny

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The remote Bangor Trail, Mayo

A few weeks back I had the pleasure of accompanying freelance journalist Lenny on The Bangor Trail. We had beautiful weather for our walking trip, especially considering it was the middle of winter.

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Walking Holiday in Cong, Co. Mayo

Cong Lakes Walking Weekend takes place each year on the May bank holiday weekend. This short video gives you a flavour of the type of places we will encounter over this long weekend walking holiday.

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Walking Holidays in Ireland

There are many great reasons for taking walking holidays in Ireland. Of course, we have the beautiful landscapes, particularly here in the west. We have the nice and relaxed pace of life along our west coast. We have the great craic in our rural pubs. But, of course, most of all we have the people. You’ve heard the phrase, “strangers are but friends waiting to be met”.

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Ag tuile is ag trá a chaitheann an fharraige an lá

“The sea spends its day ebbing and flowing”