The Devard Bed and Breakfast is renowned for its warm and friendly welcome. With its high standards of quality and care, the visitor here is rewarded with that unique hospitality which is so much a feature of the West of Ireland.Devard is ideally located just 1 km from Castlebar two doors from Gala Supermarket on the main Westport Road.Set in its own awarding winning gardens it is an idal touring base

All of the bedrooms are located on the ground floor and some are wheelchair accessible. There are 3 spacious family rooms with a double and single bed in each. There is also one double room and one twin room (two beds). Each of the bedrooms have electric blankets, hairdryers and tea and coffee making facilities

Castlebar has plenty to offer to those who like the outdoors, with a number of planned walking routes and plenty of good fishing available in the nearby rivers and lakes. The walking and angling in Castlebar have received international recognition Turlough Museum, Croagh Patrick, Ballintubber Abbey, Knock Shrine, Foxford Wollen Mills are some of the places you can visit while staying at Devard. We are within walking distance from the lovely Lough Lannagh Lake.

Valley Lodge Walking Holidays are based at the Valley Lodge Farmhouse in Facefield, Claremorris Co. Mayo. Situated in the heart of beautiful Mayo, the farmhouse provides an ideal location for experiencing the real hidden rural Ireland.

The Barrett family of Valley Lodge Farmhouse has been welcoming visitors to the area from 1989. Comfortable accommodation in a real farmhouse offers a unique opportunity to unwind and relax. The farmhouse is situated in a peaceful valley and is on a real working farm.

The farm is a traditional Irish mixed farm with goats, cattle, donkey, sheep, pig and free-range poultry. Valley Lodge farmhouse is situated 10 Km. from Claremorris, off the N60 Claremorris to Castlebar road.

The area is of great historical significance. Following the Synod of Whitby in 664 St. Coleman bishop of Lindesfarne (Holy Island) founded a monastery in Mayo Abbey for his Saxon followers. It became one of the most important monastic sites in Western Europe and its reputation for learning so increased that scholars flocked to it from all parts of Europe. The ruins of the monastic wall or vallum are still in evidence. In later times Mayo became the seat of the ancient Diocese of Mayo and the settlement gave its name to County Mayo in the 16th. century.