There's a ring of luminous scum around the lake
Manorhamilton, Sligo and Streedagh Beach, Leitrim, Ireland - 26th August 2026
We're staying in student accommodation at St. Angela's campus of the Atlantic Technical University of Sligo, and after a walk down to the lake to look for an alleged "famine house", which we fail to find, we head off to Manorhamilton for a poke around and to do lunch with the family in Eight Degrees West, formerly known as Ósta in W8. After that, we drive back to St. Angela's before getting the bus from there into Sligo where we meet up with James, Lua and Nick for dinner at Hargadon Brothers restaurant on O'Connell Street. The following day, we check out, head back to Sligo for a look at the abbey and then drive up the road to Streedagh Beach, just outside Grange.
previous album: Clogherrevagh and Strandhill, Leitrim, Ireland - 24th August 2026
A gate in the woods
Isobel on the path around the lake
James and Isobel in Eight Degrees West
Harry on the youth table
There's a classic early 90s Golf with red plates
Some sort of flags installation up at W8
The back of some buildings on Main Street
Harry waves from the nostly-teens table
The yoots hang around near SuperValu
A closed-down hardware shop
A derelict building in Manorhamilton
Philly, James and Isobel pose for a band photo
The first Protestant church in Ireland
Mad building feature in Manorhamilton
The old Manorhamilton courthouse
Dereliction on Creamery Road
The house next to the Gaelscoil has collapsed
Isobel chats to Philly and James in the car park
Keenan's butchers commemorates Seán Mac Diamarda
The closed Mac Magnuis in Manorhamilton
Another closed-down bar: Gilbride's
The view from the apartment's front window
A nice original window in St. Angela's
There's a Scary Mary in the undergrowth
Harry waits by the bus stop at St. Angela's
A jumble of stuff in an old building
Isobel checks her phone at the bus stop
Fred pays for his bus ticket
Menus are checked out in Hargadon Bros
Nick, Lua and James in Hargadon's
The corridor through Hargadon's
Fred gets a photo of James and Isobel
Hargadon Brothers on O'Connell Street in Sligo
The bar at Hargadon Brothers
Pictures on a wall in the old pub
Hargadon Bros etched in glass
Hargadon's bogs mask their wall-urinal origins
The yoots mill around in Hargadon's
Cavanagh is yet another closed-down pub
An unrelated Cavanaghs with giant pot plants
We walk along the banks of the Garavogue
Swans near the Markievicz Bridge in Sligo
Swans with their heads down looking for weeds
The 17th Century Markievicz Bridge
Swans in the sunset
A giant Sligo sign
The Glasshouse and the Garavogue river
Swans are actually enjoying white-water surfing
A statue of W. B. Yeats in Sligo town
Isobel picks something up in the apartment
Our student apartment lounge and kitchen
The boys pile out of the lift with bags of food
We get a few things from the 'campsite' shop
The statue of Lady Erin in Sligo
Fred tries out some musical spoons
O'Connell Street in Sligo
A derelict newsagent
Some 60s architecture near the old post office
The Bistro Bianconi in the 'Italian quarter'
Derelict offices in Sligo
The ruins of Sligo Abbey
Stone columns in Sligo Abbey
The cloisters of Sligo Abbey
Some mediaeval features in stone
Bright green tiny ferns grow out of the wall
Fred flips a coin to decide stuff
Fred picks up a coin
Part of the ruins of Sligo Abbey
The gang on the beach at Streedagh
We set up in the dunes
Behind an tSrithideach
James and Isobel are dots in the sea
Walkers on Streedagh beach
Nick gets dragged around for a bit
Dramatic hills behind Streedagh beach
Ben Bulben looms out of the haze
Lua and Nick do high fives
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There's a ring of luminous scum around the lake
There's a ring of luminous scum around the lake
A gate in the woods
Isobel on the path around the lake
James and Isobel in Eight Degrees West
Harry on the youth table
There's a classic early 90s Golf with red plates
Some sort of flags installation up at W8
The back of some buildings on Main Street
Harry waves from the nostly-teens table
The yoots hang around near SuperValu
A closed-down hardware shop
A derelict building in Manorhamilton
Philly, James and Isobel pose for a band photo
The first Protestant church in Ireland
Mad building feature in Manorhamilton
The old Manorhamilton courthouse
Dereliction on Creamery Road
The house next to the Gaelscoil has collapsed
Isobel chats to Philly and James in the car park
Keenan's butchers commemorates Seán Mac Diamarda
The closed Mac Magnuis in Manorhamilton
Another closed-down bar: Gilbride's
The view from the apartment's front window
A nice original window in St. Angela's
There's a Scary Mary in the undergrowth
Harry waits by the bus stop at St. Angela's
A jumble of stuff in an old building
Isobel checks her phone at the bus stop
Fred pays for his bus ticket
Menus are checked out in Hargadon Bros
Nick, Lua and James in Hargadon's
The corridor through Hargadon's
Fred gets a photo of James and Isobel
Hargadon Brothers on O'Connell Street in Sligo
The bar at Hargadon Brothers
Pictures on a wall in the old pub
Hargadon Bros etched in glass
Hargadon's bogs mask their wall-urinal origins
The yoots mill around in Hargadon's
Cavanagh is yet another closed-down pub
An unrelated Cavanaghs with giant pot plants
We walk along the banks of the Garavogue
Swans near the Markievicz Bridge in Sligo
Swans with their heads down looking for weeds
The 17th Century Markievicz Bridge
Swans in the sunset
A giant Sligo sign
The Glasshouse and the Garavogue river
Swans are actually enjoying white-water surfing
A statue of W. B. Yeats in Sligo town
Isobel picks something up in the apartment
Our student apartment lounge and kitchen
The boys pile out of the lift with bags of food
We get a few things from the 'campsite' shop
The statue of Lady Erin in Sligo
Fred tries out some musical spoons
O'Connell Street in Sligo
A derelict newsagent
Some 60s architecture near the old post office
The Bistro Bianconi in the 'Italian quarter'
Derelict offices in Sligo
The ruins of Sligo Abbey
Stone columns in Sligo Abbey
The cloisters of Sligo Abbey
Some mediaeval features in stone
Bright green tiny ferns grow out of the wall
Fred flips a coin to decide stuff
Fred picks up a coin
Part of the ruins of Sligo Abbey
The gang on the beach at Streedagh
We set up in the dunes
Behind an tSrithideach
James and Isobel are dots in the sea
Walkers on Streedagh beach
Nick gets dragged around for a bit
Dramatic hills behind Streedagh beach
Ben Bulben looms out of the haze
Lua and Nick do high fives