Sunday, October 11 Today we drove off to our last stop of this great road trip. Cobh is a really nice seaside village and we enjoyed our brief time here. Our next stop is also a seaside village but only about 40 minutes from the Dublin airport where we fly from on Tuesday. The route […]
Saturday October 10 We’re now starting a slow return to the north, along the east side of Ireland. We cross over from Dingle to Cobh which is close to Cork, but is more waterfront like, and less of a city. It is considered a harbor to Cork but it doesn’t show signs of heavy shipping
Friday, October 9 We checked out of the castle and drove off to our next stop. We were headed to Dingle. Some people we spoke with last night had done the drive to Dingle and warned us to avoid the route the went over the Conor Pass. Apparently it’s very narrow but also there is
Wednesday, October 7 The highlight of today’s drive was taking a ferry from Killmer to Tarbert in order to save a 45 minute drive around through Limerick. Our destination is the Ballyseede Castle, something I discovered in the early days of planning the trip. It’s suggested no trip to Ireland is complete without a castle
Tuesday, October 6 We depart Galway today as we head into the last week of our trip. We are going south now on the west side of Ireland. This was the day scheduled to go to the Cliffs of Moher, a very popular tourist spot with over 1.6 million visitors a year. It’s a massive
Saturday, October 3 Once I learned that the town Cong is more or less on the way to Galway, I posted it into the itinerary and got the google directions to go to Pat Cohan’s Bar, made famous in the John Wayne movie, the Quiet Man with Maureen O’Hara. At the time of the movie,
Thursday, October 1 Today was another start with a loop drive known as Gleniff Horseshoe Loop Drive. Information suggested we start the 10km drive at Gleniff Barytes Mill Site and drive in a clockwise direction to get the best views. We parked at the mill site and walked around. Barytes is something related to today’s