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BALLINROBE is probably worth visiting only if you're here in the
third week of July, for the Ballinrobe Races . This is Irish racing as
you've imagined it, with a great atmosphere at a picturesque and compact
course; there's excellent viewing and it's all very relaxed and amateur.
For accommodation, there are a couple of B&Bs - book early for race week
- try Mrs Anne Mahon's Riverside House in the Cornmarket (tel 092/41674;
£33-40/¬41.90-50.79).
South of Ballinrobe, on the R334 around Neale, is clustered a sequence
of monuments, ancient and not-so-ancient. They range from a series of
stone circles, nearer Cong, to a cross and another of the mysterious
monuments that abound in Ireland, a massive stone-stepped pyramid , with
an almost indecipherable inscription, including the name George Browne
and some worn Roman numerals, dating it somewhere in the eighteenth
century. The Brownes are the family who occupy Westport House; but the
reason for the pyramid remains obscure.
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