Innisfree

Welcome to our family home in the beautiful Irish countryside. The property's name is Innisfree and it is situated in the townland of Breandrum in Mohill, County Leitrim. The property is situated 5 kilometres to the south of the popular boating village of Keshcarrigan and 8 kilometres to the north of Mohill town.  Breandrum is a townland in the parish of Mohill in South County Leitrim which is in the province of Connaught in Ireland.

The name Innisfree is taken from William Butler Yeats's famous poem, The Lake Isle of Innisfree. The poet was living in London when he wrote his famous work and was particularly homesick one afternoon whilst walking along Fleet Street. He had read Thoreau's Walden and the idea of a self-sufficient life on an island in rural Ireland appealed to him. Whilst not having built 'a small cabin, of clay and wattle made', we have endeavoured to embrace the ethos of such a way of life and try to as much of the work here ourselves/ The actual island of Innisfree that Yeats describes in his famous poem is not far from here, situated in Lough Gill which is in both counties Leitrim and Sligo.

Whilst not the wettest place in Ireland, the average rainfall is 1150mm or 46 inches p.a. It is more than ample and enables us to grow really healthy and entirely organic vegetables and fruit and provides us with a large natural pond for our very happy ducks and geese. It is in Rossinver in North Leitrim, after all, that Ireland's Organic Centre is based. As a result we never need to water outside which helps enormously with such a large garden. A little more sunshine from time to time might be nice though.

The fishing and boating are without equal in Europe. This is Ireland's Lakeland with our county town, Carrick-on-Shannon, the acknowledged boating capital of Ireland. The fishing is the finest on offer in Europe and no licence or permit is required for either trout or coarse fishing. In fact, the record bream lives not too far away from us in Bolganard Lake.