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Dublin Airport to Markree Castle Private Car Service
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Your DM Executive Line chauffeur covers both arrivals and departures between Dublin Airport and Markree Castle Hotel in County Sligo. For airport pickups, your driver meets you at the arrivals hall and takes care of your luggage from there. For hotel departures, they collect you at the reception door.
The service runs door to door throughout, with no shared shuttles and no guesswork about taxis in an unfamiliar area. For airport arrivals, there’s 60 minutes of complimentary waiting time built in, so a short flight delay won’t cause you any bother. The price is fixed before you book - no surprises on arrival.
All vehicles are air-conditioned Mercedes-Benz, with WiFi on board, bottled water, and mobile device chargers to keep you going on the roughly two-and-a-half-hour journey to Sligo.
Markree Castle is in Collooney, a small village about 12 kilometres south of Sligo town. The castle dates from the 17th century and sits on its own wooded grounds on the banks of the Unshin River. The drive from Dublin takes around two and a half hours, heading northwest through Longford and Roscommon before the land flattens out into Sligo’s distinctive mix of limestone hills and wide skies.
Sligo town is a short drive north of Collooney and well worth your time. It’s closely associated with W.B. Yeats - he grew up nearby, wrote about the landscape repeatedly, and is buried in Drumcliff churchyard, about 8 kilometres north of town. The Model arts centre in Sligo town has one of the best collections of Irish art outside Dublin, including a strong Yeats collection.
Lough Gill and the Isle of Innisfree are just east of Sligo town. The lake is surrounded by woodland and is genuinely beautiful, particularly in the morning. Boat trips on the lough run in summer, and the shorter walk around the lake’s southern shore at Dooney Rock is easy and rewarding.
Knocknarea, the hill that dominates the Sligo skyline to the west, is a steady 45-minute walk to the top. The large cairn on the summit - Queen Maeve’s tomb, as it’s locally known - is one of the most impressive megalithic sites in Ireland, and the 360-degree view takes in Benbulben, the Atlantic coast, and much of County Sligo. Go on a clear day if you can.