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Eask Tower
We didn’t spend a lot of time on the Dingle Peninsula. Dingle itself is a small town with a lot of tourists – too many for my taste. However, Devan (shown with his mother Karen in the first picture below) came across a lesser known place called Eask Tower. It’s on a sheep farm on…
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Bugatti Meeting
I mentioned earlier in the blog that there was a Bugatti meeting in Ireland. There must have been around 30 cars. We came across them in a number of places, occasionally broken down. A lot of them came through Dingle when we were there so I took a dozen or so shots which I may…
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Powerscourt Estate
Powerscourt House and Gardens is just south of Dublin in County Wicklow. The original house was a 13th century castle. In the early 17th century, Phelim O’Toole owned much of the land until he was killed by the Wingfield family who took over the estate (condoned by King James I of England). The estate has…
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Hugh O’Flaherty
The name Hugh O’Flaherty crops up occasionally as you travel around Ireland. The statue below is just outside the walls of Killarney House. What’s interesting about the statue is the glass eyes – not something you see every day. Hugh O’Flaherty was a catholic priest who was working in the Vatican during the second world…
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More from Ireland
I’m just started working on the pictures from Ireland so will publish a few here as I go. They are in no particular order. Below is a shot of the graveyard at the back of the church in the village of Inistioge. Parts of many of the old catholic churches and monasteries around Ireland are…
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Galway
We left Kenmare for Galway June 10. We decided to drive to Tarbert and take the ferry over to County Claire. We stopped in Kilkee and started looking for a place to eat when a woman came up to us and suggested the Diamond Rocks Cafe – close to the rocks and cliffs at the…
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