... another charming Irishwoman who works at Coole Park, near Gort. Co.Galway.
She and her colleague Hilda were most welcoming to me, although Hilda was too shy to have her photograph taken!

Coole Park was once the home of Lady Augusta Gregory, dramatist, folklorist
and co-founder of the Abbey Theatre with Edward Martyn of Tullira Castle and Nobel prize-winning poet William Butler Yeats.
Coole Park, in the early 20th century, was the centre of the Irish Literary Revival.
Yeats, George Bernard Shaw, John Millington Synge and Sean O' Casey all came to experience its magic.
They and many others carved their initials on the Autograph Tree, an old beech still standing today.
Although the house no longer stands, one can still appreciate the surroundings that originally drew so many here.