Irish Auto Trail-Aclare to Bunnanaddan, County Sligo

This travel route explores a southwestern section of County Sligo, from Aclare, through Tobercurry, to Bunnanaddan.

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Camera: Sony Active Camera FDR-X3000

Vehicle: Avis Rental 2020 Open Corsa

Music Credits:

Yonder Hill and Dale/Aaron Kenny

Creeping Spiders/Nat Keefe & Beatmower

In the Distance/Dan Lebowitz

A Trip Around the Moon/Unicorn Heads

Night Drive/Quincas Moreira

Interstellar Mood/Nico Staf

Watercolor Lilies/Aaron Kenny

Pink Horizon/Chris Haugen

How About Nah/rolijui

Dulcinea/Steve Adams

Plenty Step/Freedom Trail Studio

Snowy Peaks pt I/Chris Haugen

Snowy Peaks pt II/Chris Haugen

Twilight Train/Dan Lebowitz

Image Credits:

Ballymote Railway Station (Archiseek – https://www.archiseek.com/2011/1862-railway-station-ballymote-co-sligo/)

Ballymote Railway Bridge (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage – https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/32314003/ballymote-railway-station-carrownanty-ballymote-sligo)

Midland Great Western Railway (The Wild Geese – https://thewildgeese.irish/profiles/blogs/ireland-s-midland-great-western-railway)

Moylough Belt Shrine (The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland – https://www.jstor.org/stable/25509587?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents)

Endnotes:

1. Egan, Ursula and Byrne, Elizabeth and Sleeman, Mary; ‘Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo’; Dublin Stationery Office, 2005.
2. “Ballymote Railway Station, CARROWNANTY, Ballymote, SLIGO”; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage; https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/32314002/ballymote-railway-station-carrownanty-ballymote-sligo
3. “Ballymote Railway Station, CARROWNANTY, Ballymote, SLIGO”; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage; https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/32314003/ballymote-railway-station-carrownanty-ballymote-sligo
4. “1862—Railway Station, Ballymote, Co. Sligo”; Archiseek; https://www.archiseek.com/2011/1862-railway-station-ballymote-co-sligo/
5. Gillespie, Tom; “History of the old Midland Great Western Railway—Part 1”; Connaught Telegraph; https://www.con-telegraph.ie/2020/08/28/history-of-the-old-midland-great-western-railway-part-1/
6. Lord Killanin and Duignan, Michael; Shell Guide to Ireland; Ebury Press, London, 1962.
7. “Saint Nathy’s Church, BALLYNARAW SOUTH, Bunnanaddan, SLIGO”; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage; https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/32317001/saint-nathys-church-ballynaraw-south-bunnanaddan-sligo