Youth Hostels

Some of the Irish and Scottish Youth Hostels I stayed at 1960-1991, travelling by bicycle. My favourites were Pollatomish and Berneray. Enlargements are available, in 1850 and 450 px sizes, contact:

Pollatomish YH, Ireland

IRELAND Aghadoe House Allihies Arthurstown Ball Hill Black Valley Ballinclea Ballingeary Ballinskelligs Belfast Ben Lettery Bonane Cape Clear Carrick Carrauntoohil

Castle Archdale Cork Crohy Head Doorus Dunquin Errigal Glin Killala Killary Harbour Loo Bridge Mellifont Mewillian Minerstown Morehampton

Mountjoy Street Mountshannon Newcastle Omeath Poisoned Glen Pollatomish Stradreagh Summer Cove Traenlaur Lodge Tra-na-Rosann Valentia Island White Park Bay 40 hostels

SCOTLAND Achmelvick Berneray Claddach Garramore Garrenin Glasgow Glenbrittle Glencoe Howmore Islay John o'Groats Kershadar Lochmaddy Lochranza

Oban Raasay Rackwick Rhenigidale Stockinish Tobermory Tongue Torridon Ullapool Whiting Bay 24 hostels

Berneray YH, Scotland

Irish hostels

Brackets refer to pages in "An Illustrated Survey of An Óige's Youth Hostels" (2006)

Black Valley YH 1961 (69) Ballinskelligs YH 1961 (51) Aghadoe House YH 1961 (240) Glin YH 1961 (165) Mountshannon YH 1961 (291) Mewillian YH 1961 (128) Ball Hill YH 1961 (37) Carrick YH 1961 (101) Poisoned Glen House YH 1961 (157) Tra-na-Rosann YH 1961 (333) Stradreagh YH 1961 (NI) Doorus YH 1976 (133) Ben Lettery YH 1976 (66) Curraun YH 1976 (128) Pollatomish YH 1976 (300) Belfast YH 1976 (NI) Omeath YH 1976 (295) Mellifont Abbey YH 1976 (281) Morehampton, Dublin YH 1976 (143) Ballinclea YH 1977 (41) Ball Hill YH 1977 (37) Carrick YH 1977 (101) Errigal YH 1977 (159) Belfast YH 1977 (NI) Minerstown YH 1977 (NI) Summer Cove, Kinsale YH 1978 (249) Allihies YH 1978 (23) Bonane (Presbytery) YH 1978 (74) Ballinskelligs YH 1978 (51) Valentia Island YH 1978 (338) Carrauntoohil YH 1978 (121) Black Valley YH 1978 (69) Aghadoe House YH 1978 (240) Loo Bridge YH 1978 (277) Balingeary YH 1978 (49) Cork YH 1978 (117) Arthurstown YH 1990 (31) Cape Clear YH 1990 (97) Dunquin YH 1990 (153) Ball Hill YH 1990 (37) Carrick YH 1990 (101) Crohy Head YH 1990 (125) Tra-na-Rosann YH 1990 (333) White Park Bay YH 1990 (NI) Newcastle YH 1990 (on right) (NI) Omeath YH 1990 (295) Mountjoy, Dublin YH May 1990 (139) Killary Harbour YH 1991 (243) Traenlaur Lodge YH 1991 (336) Pollatomish YH 1991 (300) Pollatomish YH (inside) 1991 (300) Pollatomish YH (inside) 1991 (300) Pollatomish YH (inside) 1991 (300) Killala YH 1991 (233) Castle Archdale YH 1991 (NI)

Scottish hostels

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Glencoe YH 1992 Claddach Baleshare YH 1992 Berneray YH 1992 Garenin YH 1992 Garenin YH 1992 Tongue YH 1992 Rackwick YH 1992 John o'Groats YH 1992 Whiting Bay YH 1994 Lochranza YH 1994 Islay YH 1994 Tobermory YH 1994 Garramore YH 1994 Howmore YH 1994 Howmore (by Rosie) YH 1994 Lochmaddy YH 1994 Berneray YH 1994 Berneray YH (inside) 1994 Berneray YH (Inside) 1994 Stockinish YH 1994 Rhenigidale YH 1994 Rhenigidale YH (by Rosie) 1994 Ullapool YH 1994 Torridon YH 1994 Raasay YH 1994 Glasgow YH 1994 Achmelvich YH 1996 Oban YH 1994 Kershader YH 1996 Rhenigidale YH 1995 Rhenigidale YH 1995 Berneray YH 1995 Glenbrittle YH 1995

Irish Youth Hostels I have stayed at on various visits to Ireland on bicycle. Still looking for 1960 photos. Some hostels are linked to www.geograph.org.uk Pages and Grid refs are from "An Illustrated Survey of An Óige's Youth Hostels" (2006) by John Martin .

Page HOSTELS YEAR 60 61 74 76 77 78 90 91 Grid ref 017 Aghavannagh 90 T058861 023 Allihies 78 90 V5843/ V5844 028 Aranmore 77 B6815 031 Arthurstown 60 90 S7010/ S7110 034 Avoca 60 T198823 037 Ball Hill 61 77 90 91 G901762 041 Ballinclea 77 S9595 049 Ballingeary 78 W1467 051 Ballinskelligs 60 61 78 V4365 Belfast 74 76 77 90 066 Ben Lettery 76 L782478 069 Black Valley 61 78 V865828 081 Bonane 78 V940637 082 Bridge of Boyne 60 N920712 271 Burren 91 R1396 097 Cape Clear 78 90 V9520/ V9521 121 Carrantuohill 78 V832883 101 Carrick 61 74 77 G587789 Castle Archdale 91 H176587 110 Cong 91 M1554 117 Cork 60 78 W658714 125 Crohy Head 90 91 B710081 128 Currane 61 76 L7395 133 Doorus 76 M343133 139 Dublin, Mountjoy 60 76 77 90 91 O152352 143 Dublin, Morehampton O172320 153 Dun Chaoin 90 Q3201/ Q3101 159 Errigal 74 77 91 B910204 169 Foulksrath Castle 60 S459664 181 Glanmore Lake 78 90 V780543 203 Glendalough 60 77 T131967 165 Glin 61 R136475 222 Inverin 90 M011219 233 Killala 91 G205297 240 Killarney 60 61 78 V918922 243 Killary Harbour 61 91 L770650 249 Kinsale 61 78 90 W652503 271 Lisdoonvara 90 R1396 273 Lismore 90 S0303 277 Loo Bridge 78 W084813 281 Mellifont 76 O013780 Minerstown 77 J497360 287 Mountain Lodge 60 R9208520916 291 Mountshannon 61 R716870 Newcastle 90 J378314 295 Omeath 76 90 J145155 157 Poisoned Glen 61 B913202 300 Pollatomish 76 90 91 F82703675 322 Sligo 90 91 G695349 Stradreagh 61 C721275 333 Tra na Rosann 61 90 C1243 336 Traenlaur Lodge 91 F973012 338 Valentia Island 78 90 V424774 342 Westport 90 M004840 Whitepark Bay 90 D014436 Overnights 10 13 3 8 9 13 22 12 HOSTELS 60 61 74 76 77 78 90 91 Grid ref YEAR

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