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WESTPORT
Castlebar to the Pontoon, 12 m. and Foxford Station, 14 m. or Lough Conn Hotel 23 m. Leave the town on the north past the workhouse, left, and a short distance beyond that, take the right-hand road and keep to it. About 9 miles from the town you strike Lough Cullin and have only to follow the road round its head where you cross the Pontoon. Keep that lough on your right all the way to Foxford Station. The road for Lough Conn Hotel (Crossmolina p.208) is along the W. side of Lough Conn.
The line crosses a bog with a distant view, right, of the Nephin Beg range, and presently Croagh Patrick appears on the left-front. The valley on the right is well wooded as we approach Westport, 161 m.
Westport.
Hotel: Railway, pleasantly situated, nearly a mile from the station. Bus meets trains, 6d.
Post Office : (a few yards to the left, when you reach the town from the station road). English Mails Del. 8 a.m., 2.30 pm. Desp. 12.10, 9.10 pm.
Telegraph Office, open 8 to 8 ; Sundays, 9 to 10 a.m.
Connemara Car (Westport via Leenane and Letterfrack) to Clifden at 9 a.m., from J une to Sept. 30. Places booked at the Railway Hotel. Fares, p. 179.
For Cars between Clifden and Galway, see p. 173.
Distances : (road) Murrisk Abbey (for Croagh Patrick), 6 m. ; Ballintober Abbey, 10 m.; Ballinrobe, 19 m.
For other distances, see routes from Westport, pp. 200-1.
Westport (pop. abt. 4,200) like Ballina does not show to advantage (except for the peep of the wooded valley already noticed) on arriving by rail. If the tourist likes to walk from the station to the hotel, he will see nearly all the town itself has to show him. The following sketch plan sufficiently indicates the way.
Sketch map of Westport
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