Lenny Antonelli take a ten hour hike through “the very loneliest place in Ireland”
Outsider magazine, Spring 2013
Unlike most things, it started in a pub on Achill in January. “How’s Galway this weather?” one of the locals asked me.
“Ah fairly quiet,” I said. He burst into laughter. If Galway was quiet in the dead of winter, what was Achill?
But the island is still a bustling metropolis compared to some parts of Mayo, he insisted. “Ever been to Carrowteige in north Mayo?” he asked. “It’s sort of like an Alaskan outpost.”
“Or have you heard of that aul’ Bangor Trail? I was camping out there for a few days and had to climb a mountain just to get phone coverage to call my daughter and tell her I was still alive.”
His friend piped up: “Sure what you be doing going out into all that aul’ wilderness?”
