After a detour around
Omagh looking for a non existing LPG stockist we drove down to
Enniskillen, finding a filling station selling autogas (but not
signposted) on the main road. As it was late afternoon with busy roads,
we drove a couple of miles to the Riverside Farm motorhome site
situated at a small marina. The next morning we drove into the town
centre parking at a supermarket (unusually with no time limits) and
walked around the main shopping streets and castle and riverside park.
In the afternoon we drove south to Florence Court, a National Trust
house with extensive gardens and woodland trails. The road map showed a
picnic site on the banks of Upper Lough Erne at Knockninney Quay which
we reached down some narrow lanes to find a small parking area with No
Overnight Parking signs so we returned to the Riverside Farm site for a
second night.
Heading west we took a detour to the Navar Forest Scenic Drive and the
Magho
Cliffs overlooking the massive expanse of Lower Lough Erne, the
only place where we were attacked by midges, and drove along the coast
road to the small resort of Mullaghmore. A walk around the grassy
headland led us to a plain memorial to the many who lost their lives
during the troubles, in particular Lord Mountbatten and his companions
who
were blown up in their sailing boat just off the rocks in August 1979.
Lord Mountbatten memorial
We were now in County Sligo and following the WAW signs stayed on
the main road rather than the maze of narrow lanes leading to beaches
and coves. We headed to Rosses Point, a small village at the entrance
to Sligo Harbour. There was a large campsite and golf course but we
managed to squeeze into a clifftop layby for the night with a several
other motorhomes (no overnight parking was allowed in the large
carpark). In the harbour entrance stood the metal man statue on a small
rock.
Returning to Sligo town we got tangled in the narrow streets then on
main roads west, diverting to Augris Head where there is a popular bar
and restaurant and small campsite but not much else, so we drove down to
Ballina, the salmon fishing capital, and on to the pretty town of
Crossmolina where we stopped overnight at the small aire at Gortnor
Abbey Pier on Lough Conn.