Mad Mayo

Originally this tour was called Mad Mayo because of being home to some of the strangest attractions in the whole of the country but was changed for fear of offending the locals of this never ending county. And then changed back again. The place is MAD!

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What you might see

☘A Musical Bridgedrag a stone along the parapet and it sings
☘John Lennon's Islandthe Clew Bay island the Beatle actually owned
☘NAMA Stonehengea stone circle thrown up over one weekend by a developer
☘Knock – Ireland's Vegasa pilgrimage town with an airport and neon to match
☘Cuma village whose signpost gets photographed more than it gets visited
☘See the sample itinerary below for morefull day plan further down the page
☘A pirate queen's tower housethe coastal stronghold of Grace O'Malley
☘A hill of 30,000 saintsa pilgrimage mound with more legends than paths
☘A deserted famine villageroofless stone houses on the mountainside
☘A pilgrim mountain climbed barefootthe annual ascent done without shoes

Sample itinerary

→Boat it out to the former Hippy Island and John Lennon and Yoko Ono's planned retirement home
→Explore The Lost Valley near Louisburgh, Co Mayo
→Coffee break at Kelly's Kitchen in Newport, ancestral home of the Hollywood star Grace Kelly
→Visit NAMA-henge, constructed over a weekend by a controversial property developer and protester
→Walk around the Deserted Village at Slievemore, Achill Island, a haunting reminder of times past
→Drag stones along Bellacorick's xylophone Musical Bridge
→Enjoy a photo opp upon arrival in Cum, Co Mayo
→Stop for tea in Ireland's Titanic Village
→Take a whiskey distillery tour to give you Dutch courage to face the rest of the stops
→Check out one man's collection of Irish memorabilia comprising over 100,000 items spanning 400 years
→Rock up to Ireland's answer to Vegas...
→Pit stop in Tooreen where the devil famously made an appearance at a dance hall back in the day
→Technically not Mayo but worth the detour, the quirky Hell's Kitchen in Castlerea, Co Roscommon