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					Visiting County Mayo
								National Famine Monument Balintubber Abbey Rosserk Friary Moyne Abby Kilalla Round Tower Doo Lough Pass Mayo Abbey Westport Clew Bay Achill Island Ceide Fields Dun Briste Tir Saile - North Mayo Sculpture Trail Michael Davitt Museum Straide Abbey National Museum of Country Life Belmullet Peninsula Foxford Woolen Mill Knock Lough Conn and Lough Cullen Hennigan's Farm
		Because County Mayo, on the west coast of Ireland, is so remote and was hit hard during the great famine of the 1840s,  it lost many of its citizens to famine and to immigration. Consequently, quite a few Americans have ancestral links to Mayo. Unfortunately, (or fortunately if you don't want Mayo to get as "touristy" as other parts of Ireland) Mayo doesn't get the respect it deserves from travel sites and tourists. There is much to see and do in Mayo while not being subjected to the crowds you will find in some of the southern counties such as Kerry and Cork.
			Do-able Day Trips Out of Mayo Sligo   Drumcliffe - Grave of Poet W. Yeats and Drumcliffe Church and High Cross   Carrowmore - megalithic tombs