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Why not cycle the Great Western Greenway - a €60ROOM ONLY
42km traffic free cycling or walking trail stretching
from Westport all the way to scenic Achill Island! from
per room per night
towns in the country. The towns’ centre was designed by
James Wyatt in 1780 in the classic Georgian architectural BOOK NOW: (098) 25027
style. Matt Molloy of Irish band “The Chieftains” has a www.wyatthotel.com
pub and music venue on Bridge Street.
A little out the road from the town you will find the TOWN CENTRE PARKING PET FRIENDLY LEISURE CENTRE
palatial Westport House and gardens. Built in the 1730s, LOCATION ACCESS
on the site of the original Ó Máille Castle home place of
the family of Gráinne Mhaol the infamous Pirate Queen.
Today the Pirate Adventure Park located in the grounds
is a favourite with kids and grown ups alike.
Westport has an 18-hole golf course and a nearby 9-hole
course.
In 1842, the English novelist, William Makepeace
Thackeray, visited Westport and wrote of the town:
“The most beautiful view I ever saw in the world. It
forms an event in one’s life to have seen that place so
beautiful that is it, and so unlike other beauties that I
know of. Were such beauties lying on English shores

Ireland’s Only

the Indoor Play Village

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The WIld West, Westpoint Shopping Centre, Westport, Co Mayo.
Telephone: 098 24634 Web: www.thewildwest.ie
facebook.com/thewildwestindoorplayvillage

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