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The interior of County Mayo can't match the splendour of its sea coasts, and unless you're keen on fishing or walking, you're unlikely to spend much time here. Like all of Ireland's less touristed areas, however, it has a charm of its own if you stick with it. A region of rough moorland - the foothills of the Nephin Beg and Ox ranges - it's strewn with lakes, giving way in the east to flatter, more fertile country. It's dotted, too, with market towns such as Pontoon, Foxford and Crossmolina, each with its own distinctive architecture and character. The road from Killala to Ballina runs through flat, farm country. The minor road that runs closer to the Moy estuary is more interesting, with two abbeys on the estuary, Moyne and Rosserk , both of them founded in the fifteenth century. Rosserk, with a tower at the water's edge, is the bigger and more poetic of the two - and considered the best Franciscan building in the country - but both have good cloisters. Look out for the sixteenth-century graffiti on the wall at Moyne; the place was burned down by Sir Richard Bingham, the English governor of Connacht, in 1590.
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