Arriving in Dublin on U S Airways
Dale with Her First Friend in Dublin, James Joyce
Walkway Along the River Liffey
The Lotts 9, The First Pub We Hit in Dublin
Sean Pulling Our First Pints of Guinness
Waiting To Settle for the Perfect Pour
A Toast to Ireland, And Yes, It Was Wonderful!!!!!
The Old Jameson Distillery Founded in 1780
John Jameson's Whiskey was Produced Here for Nearly 200 Years, Until 1971
Having Lunch at The 3rd Still, and Sampling some 12 Year Old Special Reserve
Smithy the Cat, Who Kept the Distillery Mouse Free, Up to 30 a Day
The Mash Tun Where the Grist is Turned Into Wort
The Still House, Separating Alcohol From Water
Irish Whiskey is Distilled 3 Separate Times, Before it Goes Into These Oak Casts
A Blind Tasting of 6 Different Whiskies at the End of the Tour
3 Young Ladies Fron New Jersey Who Were Less Than Enthusiastic of Their Mission
2 Scottish Lassies Who Were on the Tour
At the End of the Tour, We Bought Whiskey Fudge & Whiskey Toffee
A Tower at the Distillery that Looks Over Dublin
The Rivr Liffey
St Patrick's Tower, an Old Smock Windmill, without its 4 Sails, Built in 1805
Arriving at the Guinness Storehouse At St James Gate
The Start of the Tour
A Horse Drawn Carriage Dropping Off People for the Tour
Water is the Main Ingredient Along With Barley
In 1758 Arthur Guinness signed a 9,000 Year Lease for The St James Brewery
A Display on How Hops Grow, 2 Stories High
The Storehouse is 7 Stories High. “Dublin Without Guinness Is Like Earth With No Air”
Our Barmaid in The Gravity Bar on the 7th Floor
Waiting on Our Free Pint of Guinness That Comes With the Tour
The Gravity Bar Has a 360 Degree View of Dublin City
Hoisting A Pint ! A Traditional Irish Toast “ Slainte” Pronounced “Slawn-Che” Which Means “Good Health”
Looking Out Over Part of the Brewery
The Local Tour Guide
View Over St Patrick's Tower
A Wall of Guinness Bottles Over the Years
Church of St Augustine Built in 1862
Essex Street in Temple Bar
The Quay Bar Where We Ate Dinner Saturday Night, Fish & Chips & Guinness Stew
Temple Bar
The Statue Of 2 Housewife Shoppers Named “The Hags With The Bags”
The Ha'Penny Bridge, Built in 1816 & Gets its Name From the Half Penny Toll That Was Charged
The O'Connell Monument
The Millennium Spire, 394 Ft Tall Represents 21st Century Dublin
Town of Cashel in Tipperary County
Some of the Typical Colors of Ireland and the Beautiful Flowers
The Rock of Cashel
A Giant Limestone Out-Cropping, Crowned with a Medieval Ruins
This is the Place Where St Patrick Converted King Aenghus & Baptized Him
The Roofless Cathedral
The 13th Century Cathedral Was Burned By Cromwell's Troops
A Look at the Stone Ceiling
The East Wall of the Cathedral
A View to the South
An Old Structure that was Inhabited By Nuns
The Perimeter Wall
A Tomb of A Bishop
Our Guide that Took Us on a Walking Tour
One of the Small Chapels
Looking Out One of the Battlement Slots
This Momument Was a Celtic Cross, But WAs Struck By Lighting 50 Years Ago
Arriving In Clonmel, The Gaelic Name Is Cluain Meala
The Coachman Pub With A Great Guinness Sign
The Irish Horse Whisperer
Blackberries
The McDonald's Across the Street From Our Room
Coming Into Cork
We Took The Cork City Tour on This Double Decker Bus
The Entrance to the Old Cork City English Market
The Market Dates From 1786
St Fin Barre's Cathedral
The Beamish Brewery Where They Make Murphy's Stout Since1792
Would You Believe?
The Garda on Patrol
Cork Is Irelands 2nd Largest City With 125,000
Cork City Was Originally Built On Canals Similar To Venice
A Potential Prospect
An Irish Appliance Delivery Truck
Your Guess Is As Good As Mine !
Oh To Be A Bus Driver In Ireland
A Pub in Cork
Blarney Castle
The Blarney Castles Stone has a Sense of Magic About It that Bestows the Gift of Eloquence on Anyone Who Climbs Its 120 Steps to Lean Backward From the Battlements and Bestow a Kiss on It
Dale Making Her Way Up The 120 Steps
The Legend of the Blarney Stone's Power Rose From Queen Elizabeth 1's Frustration in Dealing With Irish Cheiftan, Cormac MacCarthy, Lord of Blarney, and His Smiling Flattery That Veiled Wiliness With Eloquence
Her Declaration, “ This is Nothing But Blarney-What He Says, He Never Means!”
On My Way To The Blarney Stone
An Opening In The Stairway Of The 15th Century Castle
The Blarney Stone is Just Above The Arched Window
Dale Kissing the Blarney Stone, Notice The People Walking Below!
In The 1830's Father Prout May Also Bestowed Magic On The Stone When He Wrote, “There Is A Stone There That Whoever Kisses Oh ! He Never Misses To Grow Eloquent ! Or The Gift To Gab !
Heading Back Down After Kissing The Blarney Stone
Looking Down At The Great Hall
Some Of The Battlements At The Top Of The Castle
Looking Out Over The Castle Grounds
The Murder Hole Is Where They Used To Pour Hot Oil On Unwanted Intruders
Looking Towards The Rock Close In The Castle Gardens, Said To Have Been Favored By The Ancient Druids
There Are Some Castle Walls That Are 18 Feet Thick
An Irish Tree Hugger
The Castle In The Distance
The Blarney House, Built In 1874
One Of The Most Gracious And Elegant Of The Great Houses Of Ireland
Stables
The Stablemasters Quarters
Blarney Castle Was Build Nearly 600 Years Ago By Cormac McDermot McCarthy, One Of Ireland's Greatest Cheiftans
Heading Back Into Cork, On The Skinniest City Street We Drove On, A Cab DRiver Coming The Other Way Had To Back Up A Block To Allow Us To Pass
Gleann Fia Country House, Our B & B In Killarney
The Lane Into Gleann Fia
The House Is On 5 Acres Surrounded By Woodlands And River Walks
The Self Service Bar In The Conservatory Was On The Honor System, You Just Left A Note Of What You Had With Your Room #
A Herd Of Cattle Crossing The Road
Bunratty Woods B & B Guesthouse
The Present Castle Was Built In 1260
Loop Head House, The House Of Fisher-Farming Folk
The Thatch Is Roped Down To Protect It Against The Atlantic Gales
Baking A Cake On A Peat Fire
Cashen Fisherman's House, Home Of A North Kerry Salmon Fisherman
Mountain Farmhouse, A Poor Farmer's House
Golden Vale Farmhouse, A Wealthy Farm House
The School House, From East Clare, Housed Up To Eighty Children
PeaT Logs
Red Deer
An Old Farmhouse Sink With Separate Taps
North Clare Farmhouse
Materials Are Reflective Of The Rocky Moher Area Of North Clare
Hazelbrook House, Built in 1898, By The Hughes Brothers, Who Produced HB Ice Cream
A Vertical Watermill
The Great Hall Where We Were Greeted By Harp And Violin Music
One Of The Ladies Of The Castle Who Offered Us Bread Dipped In Salt To Ward Off Demonds
Antlers From The Extinct Irish Elk
The Butler Of The Castle
Ola Our Server With The Food For Our Table
Chicken Breats And Vegetables That We Ate With A Dagger
The Cliffs Of Moher
An Observation Tower Built By One Of The Original Landowners
The Cafe, Gift Shop And Museum Built Into The Side Of The Hill
An Interesting Irish Town
Golf Course In Admare
The #1 Hole With A Small Castle Behind The Green
An Unusual Tree In Killarney
Abbey Lodge in Killarney Town
We Ate Dinner Here, Dale Had Salmon Stuffed With Crab And I Had Boxy, A Potatoe Pacake Stuffed With Creamed Chicken
Live Irish Music in Killarney
Sean Patrick
Behind the Abbey Lodge B & B in Killarney
View of Mucroos Lake from Muckross House
Muckross House built in 1843
West Side of Muckross House
Front Entrance of Mucross House
The Ivy was starting to chang color
West Side of Mucross House
The Canines of Muckross Riding Stables Greeting Dale
Ready for the Trail Ride
My Harse, Billy !
Dale on her trusty mount, Sparky
Killarney National Park
Our Guide Purdy, made certain we knew they don't ride Western in Ireland
Billy had trouble keeping up
Purdy of Mucross Riding Stables
They outfitted us with helmuts and rubber boots
Irish Cowpokes
Heading for the barn
Purdy O'Donovan also runs a B & B on his farm
Lookin for oats
Sean our driver and his Rig
The Jaunting Cart Parking Lot
Two Other Jaunting Carts
A small tunnel to Torc Waterfall
Torc Waterfall
Muckross Lake from the Jaunting Cart
Our horse acting more like a mule
Jaunting Cart
A very popular activity
A Giant Cedar Tree. not native to Ireland
Jaunting in Killarney
The lake edge
Looking towards Killarney Town
Muckross Abbey under rennovation
Entrance to Muckross Abbey
Celtic Cross Tombstone
Graveyard overlooks Mucross Lake
Yew Tree in the courtyard of Mucross Abbey
Legend says that anyone who cuts down this Yew Tree will die within the year
Corridor in the Abbey
Hand forged chain
Entrance to the graveyard
Mossy Hillside
Mucroos Lake
Swans
Kerry Cattle, once the dominant breed in Ireland
Ladies View
Ladies View overlooking Upper Lake
Sheep laying on the Road
Red Dye is like a brand for the farmers to idenify their sheep
Henry Street In Kenmare
Ring of Kerry , Kenmare
Our room was 2nd floor on the left
Virginia's B & B in Kenmare, Our Room
Noreen's B & B Kitchen
The welcoming committee!
An Irish Woodie
Delivering fresh baked bread
Dale was ready to grad a loaf
Milk Delivery
Downtown Kenmare
Ring of Kerry
An Iriishman Was Once Asked If There Was An Equivalent Irish Word To “Manana”. “Oh No” He Replied, “We Have Nothing With That Sense Of Urgency !”
The Atlantic
Small Bay with the Tide Out
Farm in the Valley
Winding downhill
An Irish Local
Dale on the other side of the Atlantic
A Farm by the Ocean
The Ocean Waves
Irish Sheep
50 Kilometer Speed Limit
Ring of Skellig
WHAT !!!!!
A Shrine Along A Mountain Road
One of the locals
Portmagee
Low Tide in Portmagee
Fishing Boats
The Pub in Portmagee where we ate lunch
Lunch was seafoof chowder, crab augratin, Carlsberg & Guinness
Getting ready for an Irish Wedding
Local produce
King John's Castle is over 700 years old
Entrance to King John's Castle in Limerick
Small Talk with the Guard
King John's Castle Courtyard
The Tan Sandstone was brought in from Tralee
Over looking the Shannon River
The Northeast Tower with Gallows below
Outside the castle walls
The watchtower guard
The riverview tower
The Gatehouse and wall walk along the battlements
Our Blue Ford Focus Ghia
Irish Version of “SLOW DOWN”
Cruise Boat on the Liffey River
Mulligan's Pub, Dublin Where JFK used to drink.
The Stag's Head Pub, In Dame Court, Dublin Since 1770
Inside the Stag's Head Pub
The Auld Dubliner
Inside the Auld Dubliner Pub
Water Buffalo in The Auld Dubliner Pub
A Street in Temple Bar
Street Musicians
A Mediaeval Mime
Worn Out From A Spectacular Trip!!!!!!
