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Sunset over the strand and causeway at Coney Island, County Sligo

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Coney Island

Rosses Point, County Sligo

You reach the island in Sligo Bay at low tide, along a sand road marked out with pillars.

Coney Island, off the coast of Sligo, is so named because of the vast quantity of rabbits that call it home.

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Rosses Point, County Sligo
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Coney Island
Where Coney Island is in County Sligo

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  1. Until24 NovTravelling Banner Exhibition | The Life & Works of WB YeatsBallymote Library · Ballymote16 September to 24 NovemberFree

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  1. The flat top and steep face of Benbulben above the fields and the estuaryBenbulbenMountain · DrumcliffeBenbulben is flat on top, north of Sligo town, and a looped forest trail runs around the base of it.
  2. The flat layered cliffs and breaking sea at Mullaghmore HeadMullaghmore HeadViewpoint · MullaghmoreA low headland with a small harbour on it, and a big wave break offshore.
  3. Yeats's grave and the graveyard beside the church at DrumcliffeDrumcliffeMonastic site · DrumcliffeAn early monastic site under Benbulben, with a carved high cross beside the churchyard W B Yeats is buried in.
  4. Sligo - Sligo PriorySligo AbbeyAbbey · SligoThe Dominican friary ruin in the middle of the town kept its cloister and a carved stone altar.
  5. Angled rock ledges running out across the wet sand at StreedaghStreedagh BeachBeach · GrangeA long strand near Grange. Three Armada ships went down off it in 1588.
  6. The road running into the cliffs and green floor of the Gleniff HorseshoeGleniff HorseshoeViewpoint · CliffoneyThe road loops through a glacial valley in the Dartry mountains, with a cave up high on the rock face.
  7. Spanish Armada Visitor CentreMuseum · GrangeGrange's former church now tells the story of the ships lost at Streedagh.
  8. The stone front of the Model in Sligo behind its railings on a frosty morningThe ModelMuseum · SligoThis gallery on The Mall holds the Niland Collection of Jack B Yeats paintings.

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