This travel-blog is for a trip we took to Ireland in October of 2016.
Flying from California to Ireland, Driving in Ireland, Town of Clontarf (suburb of Dublin), Clontarf Castle/hotel, St. John the Baptist Cemetery
Dublin city tour, River Liffey dividing North and South Dublin, Christ Church, Temple Bar area, Dublin Castle, Trinity College, Book of Kells,
Leaving Dublin, Powerscourt Mansion and Gardens, Powerscout Falls, Wicklow Gaol (jail). Finding our B&B,
Wicklow Mountains, Glendalough (gateway, round tower, cathedral)
Kilkenny Castle, rock of Cashel
Adare (thatched cottages, Holy Trinity Church, Trinitarian Abbey, Desmond Castle, Augustinian Friary, St, Nicolas Church, North to Galway
Winding our way north, Bertraghboy Bay, Owenmore River, Kylemore Abbey & Garden, Westport, Laundry at a Texaco, medieval banquette at Dunguaire Castle near Kinvara,
Adare (again), Cork City, Henry Ford Monument, Skibbereen and the great famine, Halloween & Fairies, Catholic Restrictions
Great Famine, Abbeystrewery graveyard, Leap & Glandore, Drombeg Stone Circle
Alter Wedge Tomb, Mizen Head Signal Station, Barley Cove, Crook Haven,
Bantry Bay, Glengarriff Woods Nature Preserve, Molly’s Farm, over the Caha Mountains, through Kenmare, over the Macgillycuddy's Reeks (mountains), through Kilarney National Park and on to the Dingle Peninsula.
Reask Monastic site, Wine Strand, Kilmalkedar Cemetery & Church. Gallarus Oratory, Slea Head Drive, Blaskett Island Center. Clogher Strand, fairies and the “Other World”
Hussy’s Folly, Dingle town, dingle Harbor
More Irish countryside, Listowel Castle, Shannon Ferry, Milton Malbay, Lehinch, Ennistimon, ‘Celtic Tiger’ financial collapse in mid 2000’s
St. Brigid’s Well, Cliffs of Moher (from the land side), Burren region, Ballyvaughan, Poulnabrone Portal Tomb
Aran Islands, Cliffs of Moher (from the water side), Doolin