Monday - Muckish

Leaving the coast for a day, with a packed lunch, we head towards the impressive Muckish Mountain. Traversing old tracks built one hundred and fifty years ago during the famine takes us into eerie silence, only horses can use the tracks as they were originally built for them. Nowadays they are overgrown but serve our purpose very well. As we get closer to this mountain, we come into the now dismantled Falcarragh-Burtonport railway, made famous by Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie in the film 'The Railway Man'. The surface is ideal for long canters. After lunch we cross three rivers by means of ancient fords. After a short hack we enter a lovely forest for another long canter, taking us in the direction of Errarooey, where the horses overnight whilst riders return to Arnold's Hotel for dinner and overnight.

Dunfanaghy Stables, Arnolds Hotel, Dunfanaghy, County Donegal.
Email: dunfanaghystables@hotmail.com
reservations@arnoldshotel.com

Phone:00353 (0) 74 9100980
Fax:00353 (0) 74 9136352