BSW4 - 1. Leaving Ballybeg/Lughnasa

Speaker: Mary MurphyFrom The Bluestack Way - Part 4 playlist.Just as Gar had to leave Ballybeg in 'Philadelphia Here I Come', we must leave the beautiful town of Glenties to complete the Way. With any luck you'll be back for the MacGill festival, the Harvest Fair or just to base yourself for a future visit.  The starting point of Day Four is opposite the Limelight nightclub up Main Street and is of course signposted. You'll be walking some 400m along the road and taking a left in the direction of Ardara and the imposing mountains around it. On the T-junction itself, you'll see the circular skid marks left by boy racers - this somewhat pathetic activity is known as 'donuting' and the cars that caused them are easy to spot; garish souped up twin cam motors with exhausts like bazookas. You'll hear them before you see them and if so, step well in off the road, not out of respect, but safety.  So we've told you all about the joys of Dancing at Lughnasa, but we feel we need to explain that most curious of words. In our audio piece, we tell you about what the festival of Lughnasa actually was about.