We started with the hotel that we stayed in. It was the Clarion Hotel in Sligo. It was a former mental hospital- built in the 1800's. It was very progressive for its time, as before this patients were sent to the “goal”/prisons. This administrator of this hospital felt that patients were prosper if they were not tied down or kept away from each other. Additionally he felt that if they had a chore- like working in the garden it would help them adjust to normal life. The hospital closed in the early 1900’s and was gutted and turned into this spa/hotel around 1996.
Next stop Sligo Abbey. It was in ruins but very pretty.
Then over to the Megalithic stones/burial grounds (similar but smaller to Newgrange). 
3rd stop was the Marble Arch Cave where we took a boat trip inside the cave.
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