Let's start our ramblings with Boyle.
With its magnificent fast flowing river, beautiful old bridge, attractive riverside walkways, compact nature (not the typical Irish town of one long street and perhaps the odd extra one jutting out from its central crossroads), great big house - King House, Lough Key Forest Park, Boyle Abbey and more, this is a town which should have taken on the Celtic Tiger and maxed out (as the Americans might say) on its competitive advantages.
Instead, we have a town still searching for the extinct beast.
Indeed, reports that the feline was seen flying past on the N4, many times over, are accurate. I saw her myself. I could swear her paws were full of cash - some of it dropped at the river crossing at Carrick, the rest held tightly for disbursement in Sligo.
So while I would definitely advise you to spend some time in this great place, it won't be from here that you receive advice to overnight there. No way. Get on down to Carrick where it's all happening. Brand new cinema, great shops, good hotels, great bars, the river, etc.
By the way, to sum up Boyle, what a disgrace of a hotel on the riverside. Jeepers, you might set foot in there, but probably not the second.
Boyle has real potential. What the townspeople need is a mini revolution to id and shame the morons who are not developing it.
And by the way, I totally agree that no hotel should have been, or ever be, built in the Forest Park. The obvious place for a hotel is just out past the church, before you reach the bypass road. One that's visible from the bypass, but most definitely not on it - think safety.
With its magnificent fast flowing river, beautiful old bridge, attractive riverside walkways, compact nature (not the typical Irish town of one long street and perhaps the odd extra one jutting out from its central crossroads), great big house - King House, Lough Key Forest Park, Boyle Abbey and more, this is a town which should have taken on the Celtic Tiger and maxed out (as the Americans might say) on its competitive advantages.
Instead, we have a town still searching for the extinct beast.
Indeed, reports that the feline was seen flying past on the N4, many times over, are accurate. I saw her myself. I could swear her paws were full of cash - some of it dropped at the river crossing at Carrick, the rest held tightly for disbursement in Sligo.
So while I would definitely advise you to spend some time in this great place, it won't be from here that you receive advice to overnight there. No way. Get on down to Carrick where it's all happening. Brand new cinema, great shops, good hotels, great bars, the river, etc.
By the way, to sum up Boyle, what a disgrace of a hotel on the riverside. Jeepers, you might set foot in there, but probably not the second.
Boyle has real potential. What the townspeople need is a mini revolution to id and shame the morons who are not developing it.
And by the way, I totally agree that no hotel should have been, or ever be, built in the Forest Park. The obvious place for a hotel is just out past the church, before you reach the bypass road. One that's visible from the bypass, but most definitely not on it - think safety.
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