After leaving the cemetery, we headed around Knocknarea to the town of Strandhill before starting our southward trip.
Sheep on the side of Knocknarea - they're the little white specks on the larger photo.
Overlooking Ballysadare Bay, the southern arm of Sligo Bay - somebody likes to live alone, yet right on the water!
Another view of another section of Ballysadare Bay, the southern arm of Sligo Bay.
Strandhill is the community on the western side of Knocknarea. This is looking south across the entrance to the southern arm of Sligo Bay.
Our rental car, overlooking part of Strandhill and Sligo Bay.
To the right, in the centre of the gable, was a plain altar on which stood a lamb. Behind the lamb a large cross stood upright.
Angels hovered around the lamb for the duration of the apparition which was enveloped in a heavenly light.
Two official Church Commissions of Enquiry, one in 1879 and the second in 1936, found that "the testimony of the witnesses, taken as a whole, was trustworthy and satisfactory"
Afterwards we had an amusing lunch in the town, which is just across the street from the church. Then it was time to hit the road again.
Sligo of Old