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Dublin Airport Or Dublin City To Sligo Private Chauffeur Transfer
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From Dublin Airport or Dublin City, your chauffeur picks you up - in the arrivals hall or at your Dublin address - and takes you the roughly 2 hours 40 minutes northwest to Sligo. It’s a private journey, just your group, with WiFi on board and water provided. The route takes you up through Longford and Roscommon before Sligo’s coastline and mountains come into view - not a bad way to arrive in Yeats country.
The return is simple to arrange. Book the same transfer for your departure date and give the operator your pick-up time and location.
Sligo town sits between the sea and the mountains, with Ben Bulben’s distinctive flat-topped profile watching over the whole thing from the north. W.B. Yeats was born in Dublin but grew up summers in Sligo, and the county claims him fiercely. His grave is at Drumcliffe churchyard, about 8km north of the town - short to visit, genuinely moving if you know his work.
The Model in Sligo town is one of Ireland’s better small art galleries. It holds a significant collection of Jack B. Yeats’s paintings alongside contemporary Irish work. Entry is free, and it’s housed in a well-converted 19th-century building near the town centre. Worth an hour on a rainy afternoon.
Strandhill is the place to go for the Atlantic coast experience - a 10-minute drive from the town centre, it’s a wide, windswept beach that’s popular with surfers and walkers. The village has a handful of good pubs and a seaweed bath house that regulars swear by for tired legs after a long journey.
Carrowmore Megalithic Cemetery is just outside the town. It’s one of the largest concentrations of prehistoric monuments in Ireland - over 30 passage tombs within a small area - and it’s far quieter than Newgrange. You can walk among the monuments at your own pace, which isn’t something you can do everywhere.