Cork, Cobh and Jameson

Pictures are a little out of sequence today!
1.  Cork Center City:  the steps up to the doors are because the buildings are on reclaimed land and you used to be able to boat up to the doors.
2. Jameson Whiskey Distillery:  Barrels show the change, left to right, from clear first barreling to 20 year old in a barrel when the color is rich.
3.  English Market in Cork
4.  Harbor view of prison for political prisoners and others waiting to be sent to Australia:  Cobh Harbor (pronounced Cove)
5.  Cobh Harbor view:  Supposedly the second largest natural harbour in the world, next to Sydney Australia
6.  St. Colman's Church in Cobh
7.  Colorful buildings along the street/harbor of Cobh
8.  Memorial to the people on the Lusitania who drown after the German U Boat torpedoing and to the people who help rescued them.
9. Building where people boarded the Titanic (last port of call before going to sea and sinking 3 1/2 days later)
10. Titanic Gate for second class passengers
11. Annie Moore and her brothers:  Annie was the first person to be processed at Ellis Island in 1892
12.  Disembarking center for those emigrating:  now a heritage center with marvelous display
13. Water wheel that powered the grain crushing for Jameson Distillery
14.  Windows of one of the Jameson buildings
15.  As the British would say:  Mind your head!

Cork, Cobh and Jameson

Killlarney in the morning and on to Blarney Castle

Excuse the size of the pictures again.  I seem to have no control over this!  Click to see individual ones smaller.
1-3 Jaunty Car ride through Killarney National Park to Ross Castle.
4-5 Decorative thatched roof and detail of roof
6.  Ross Castle
7.  View of stream in the park
8. Lunch at Blarney Woolen Mills Shopping Area:  shepherd's pie
9.Blarney Castle entrance and a really neat tree:  Pat and Pam
10-11 Blarney Castle where you kiss the Blarney stone for the gift of eloquence:  no we did not do it!!!
12.  Pat climbing the tower stairs to the top.  Supposedly 100 steps.
13.  Tower steps
14. One of the tour group kissing the stone!
15.  M on the top level of the castle
16. View of the turret and tower from the top:  not the blue skies and sunshine!
17.  Central view of interior of the castle where the different levels of the floor would be:  Floors removed for viewing the interior
18.  Thatched roof with partial thatching: note the peak of the roof
19.  An Irish crow:  playing with a stone--picked up and dropped repeatedly.  There are 7 kinds of crows in Ireland.
20.  This ones for Jennifer:  Thought of you when I saw this store!

Morning in Killarney and on to Blarney Castle

Killarney and Ring of Kerry

1. Lampost in front of the International Hotel in Killarney.
2.Flowers in hotel entry way
3.Donkeys on hillside demonstrating carrying peat blocks
4.  Mountain view along the Ring of Kerry drive
5.. Charlie Chaplin statue in village of Waterville on the Iveraugh Peninsula.
6- 7.  Shoreline views along the drive
8. Fuschia growing wild along a fence in Caherdaniel village where we had lunch.  It grows wild and covers many of the hedge rows along the roads.
9.  Statue of the Blessed Mother along the roadway
10.  Road way at Castle Cove
11. River in Sneem where we stopped for ice cream cones--softserve with chocolate sauce twirls
12.  Muchross Mansion:  built by an Irish assembly man and after many ownership changes is now part of a huge national park in Killarney.

Killarney and Ring of Kerry

Cliffs of Moher and more

1.  Corcomroe Abbey from the 11th century
2.  House people lived in next to the Abbey.
3 St. Patrick carving on the wall of the Abbey.
4.  This house was in the village where we stopped for lunch and the flowers and color of the house were very attractive.
5.  Poulnabrone Dolmer:  burial site from 2500 bc.  Person was creamated elsewhere and bones were stuffed into rocks under this monument.
6.    Cliffs of Moher--now you see them and now you don't:  we had a very rainy day and high winds but were delighted to see the cliffs even briefly!

7. One of many castle ruins we saw on our tour today,.
Tonight we are in a quaint old hotel (former brewery) in Killarney.

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