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Extract from the Drumshanbo Travel Guides:
Though its name translates as "the back of the old cow's arse",
DRUMSHANBO
, eight miles north of Carrick, is a neat, cheerful place with an air of briskness poised at the southern tip of the beautiful
Lough Allen
. The Sliabh an Iarainn Visitor Centre (April-Oct Mon-Sat 10am-6pm, Sun 2-6pm; 1/?1.27) gives some interesting background on local life, including the use of the sweathouse, a sort of sauna, and the tradition of coal and iron mining, especially out towards Arigna. The last of the mines in the area closed in 1990.
In July, the village holds the Joe Mooney Summer School, a week of...
read the whole Drumshanbo Travel Guides...
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