![]() Three of them: the Lavia, the Juliana, and the Santa Maria de Vison, foundered here after several ferocious storms had driven them onto the rocks. Our walk started at the Armada monument, a bronze plaque which showed the route the Spanish Armada ships had taken down the west coast of Ireland in their desperate attempt to get back to Spain in 1588. Looking in the opposite direction are the sand dunes of Streedagh (pronounced STREE-da, to rhyme with ‘Freda’) overlooking Donegal Bay. ![]() If I look straight across the water, I can see the unmistakable outline of Benbulben, the flat topped mountain beloved of the poet W. It was a beautiful day and, for once, my photos turned out as I wanted. In the photograph above, I am standing among the sea dunes at Mullaghmore. The walk covered a huge amount: local geology dating back 350 million years prehistory, we examined an interesting Bronze Age Wedge tomb 16th century history, hearing the story of the shipwrecks of three ships from the Spanish Armada which sank here in 1588 botany, walking over the machair grassland with its profusion of wild flowers marine geology: marvelling at the fossilized corals, sea lilies and other creatures strewn in profusion along the shore and 20th century history, seeing Mullaghmore harbour where the tragic murder of Lord Mountbatten, and three other people, two of them children, took place in 1979. In June last year, I was at Streedagh strand in Co Sligo, on Ireland’s west coast, on one of Auriel Robinson’s wonderful SeaTrails walks. ![]()
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