ireland_2004 Photo Gallery by roxanneboscobel at pbase.com

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The angels are singing in Adare -- a rainbow starts our trip	And suddenly, we're in Kinsale -- what a trip!	Picturesque harbor in Kinsale	Charlesfort -- did I mention it was, um, chilly and rainy?
Reminds me of the fort in Hamilton, Bermuda, except that one is a lot warmer with loads of tropical plants.....	What a sky!!	Charlesfort and the old fort across the river	So that's what they are!
Cobh city in the morning	Fish boats!	Spectacular visitors center in Cobh	The victorian park in Cobh
Beautiful, colorful Cobh	View to the cathedral	The largest tombstones I have ever seen!	Just point and click and a perfect photo!
rock and shoreline outside Youghal	Such a view they have	The colors, the clouds, breathtaking!	The castle next door
Youghal	Very, very old bar for lunch	Mmmmmmmmmm meat products	And cheese!
Colorful shop	We have a picture of this from the other direction in a book published in 1957; not much has changed!	Hi Joan!	Interesting sign
Low tide in Youghal	Very interesting sign	On the road again.....	Rain in the distance -- look out, you're on the wrong side of the road hahahahahah
another small town	turning around to find the lookout point -- pretty gate!	There are ancient sites in those hills	Lookout location; fascinating little town we went thru to get here
Another town, another church	The rooks have stuffed this with sticks for their nest	Old un-stained glass window	In the background is where we used the loo
Beautiful!	Fascinating bar; a gentleman outside waited for us to go in before he entered to get his mid-morning pint	stone bridge and dam	mill gate
beautiful	the currently empty factory	the canal	Prepared to receive the bounty
Sheeps!	Another abbey....or is it a friary?	Wow, it really must have been something..	And such a teeming village
Looking out of the old to the newer	Photo time!	This is the last time we saw Joan as she entered the cemetery...........stop wait come back ....... bad juju	Morning in Kilkenny
A huge edifice	Ah, a castle....in Kilkenny.....that would make it the Kilkenny Castle	Castle from the grounds	Looking castle-like
Morning light around the castle walls	That's me!	the river next door	Rose garden
Garden seats and pond	Virginia creeper -- wow bright in the morning light	Nasturtiums -- they were everywhere growing wonderfully!	Shrine in a beautiful little town
with the accompanying graves	Mushrooms!	A very thrifty headstone	Known for their pottery
And the bridge that caused the town to come into existence	Hmmmmmmmmm looking for nummies	Found nummies!!!	An abbey!
Following the tour group	You can just picture how it was all those years ago	Prepared to receive.......the spirits	what a sight!
Very old carvings	Up on the second floor, looking down	Hundreds and hundreds of years they have lain here	some of that splotching on the wall is the original wall painting over plaster
corner piece	Joan enjoying the Abbey	Finally! Lunch! Mine is a panini -- always seems to be made with a french roll. Yuuuuummmm	In the pub relaxing
Taking a walk thru the village after lunch	On the bridge in the middle of Thomastown	Ruins right in the town	And here's how they sell the peat to burn in their fireplaces
this is what happens when the main drag goes right through the town; big trucks drive through these ludicrously small streets	And scrape the sides of the buildings	Stephen disappears in the rush of trucks	Pretty building
This is the third car to pass between this truck and parked car -- with literally 2" to spare on either side	Mmmmmmm doggie muesli!	Most of the towns have this kind of a descriptive plaque	and a town map
We walked up to the church on the hill; wonderful view	Looking down on Thomastown	and up at the steeple which happens to be separate from the church itself	Didn't use flash, sorry its blurry, but the effect is nice
and the result	Looking out into the sun	beautiful gate and garden next to church	Initioge where we stopped for the loo and a drink
gate!	St. Mary's church (thanks Stephen for the name)	Ahhhhhh and only a two hour drive left to Fethard on Sea!	You like that tree over my shoulder???
Old and older	Roones	What an imposing block!	the churchyard; many different churches built on the same footprint
Interesting family history on a gravestone	the light, the sky is beautiful	Interesting plaque!!!	Another large headstone
that big old piece of church	Here's what you just saw slides of	View out the window of the bedroom I used at the house in Fethard-on-Sea	Keep in mind that it is about 45 degrees with a stiff wind blowing throughout the next set of photos
There were people out in the water in scuba suits	Yes, it is that cold..........and beautiful	Pay attention to the height of this water....	Ancient ruins next to modern industry
and off we go on our walk!	Across the moors they struggled into the biting wind....	with only sheep as their company...	on and on they went......
hour after hour.......	With nothing to break the monotony but some bleak, grey stone walls.	We ran across an ancient mariner....oh wait, that's Stephen!	Only the craggy cliffs to divert our attention....
The hearty crew	And there, in the distance, our goal! Take heart, it isn't that much farther......	really cool natural bridge	very old water trough
The craggy shores	The grass is very thick and very fine; these alpine daisies grow all over	In the lighthouse, one of the windows	looking out from the lighthouse
over the flat fields	and down to the rocks supporting the lighthouse	and more rocks	looking straight down; see how the wind has shaped the grass?
don't get too close!	this view was too good so I showed it again from a slighly different angle	The lighthouse steps are built between the inner and outer walls	English daisies everywhere!
They had dug the sugar beets; here are the leavings	Danger, slippery rocks and cliffs!	Um, hello?? Danger??	We saw a seal head from here and some interesting birds
We had lunch here; kind of looks George Jetsony from this perspective	This is how they keep the sheep from climbing into the water troughs and over the fence	Walking back from the lighthouse	Where did all the water go!!!
Hey, let's stop for a pint!	Old church	frequently visited.....sometimes the graffiti is very old	old churchyard
Apparently there were actually several lifeboat disasters.....this is but one	Explanation of where we are	A warm spot for a pint!	Enjoying myself!
Communing with the cows!	Boy, these cows have a GREAT view!	Story of the abbey and walks	Tinturn Abbey
Mud flats and birds	Can you read this??	They did!	The crew!
The crew again	Avalon!!! Nice place!!	View from the road in Fethard	Song birds flocking to the view across the farmlands
On the way to the beach!	And there's the beach!	On that hill over there is an earthenworks fort along with the later tower	Beautiful
I actually did walk down there and picked up some shells; this was early in the morning and it was pretty desolate but beautiful	Wexford!! Shopping on, um, Sunday and most places are closed...	But they did open later on about 1 o'clock	Really great garden center
And walking down the narrow shopping area; traffic still was able to drive down the street as we walked along the sidewalk	Sammich shop	Guess what that part sticking out there near the top was!!!	This is the little town where the ferry comes over from Passage East
Out on the beach -- long long mud flats with lots of birds	and they drive out onto this beach; see the fort on the hill??	Such a sky!	The crew again
Recreating a previous photo op	Pat and Harry enjoy a balmy day at the beach	Arlene and Brendan wait for the tidal wave...	The angels are singing again!
Ah! Time for a pint!	The kitchen of the house we rented, looking into the livingroom	The kitchen table overlooking the backyard	Arlene and Brendan's garden! Wow!!
Where they grow their tomatoes and tender plants!	Good thing we're following him and not coming the other way!	Butcher shop	Interesting town; we stopped for the loo and a nummy
Cool phone booth!	Disaffected youths sitting in the square	Pretty, huh!	Love those narrow streets
Okay, here we stopped for lunch near this bridge	Swans lots of swans!	On the highway going into Dublin	Bright pub in Dublin
Night schene from the HaPenny bridge in Dublin	View from the light rail of Dublin	There's that river again!	Stephen getting in my shot in the trainstation
Where they keep the book of Kells	Interesting carving	more from the same building	Behind my fat head are protestors who were on TV that night; too bad you can't see them....
Then we got on a bus......where it was about 40 degrees with of course the wind blowing but the views were great!	Smushed bicycle in the middle there	A church steeple	Cool building
What the bus looked like	Cathedral steeple	Interesting construction	See that big hole in the side of the building?
They need it for big things like that!!	Looking back across the river	Nice view	Behind Joan's head are some other protestors on their way downtown
this spire is over 300 feet tall and is pretty darn impressive	See it there in the back? Wow!!!	The square outside the post office, yes the famous one	More street scenes with a pedestrian mall that was PACKED
Another impressive building	Raising a toast to a great trip!	Dublin pubs!	Say cheese!
Inside another pub (this one had live music)	Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm	Building a thatched roof; this one appeared to be made of hay rather than straw.....	It seemed to be of looser construction than some other thatched houses we've seen
Notice that these shrubs have been made into standards!!!	We made it to Newgrange!	Listening to the talk, then we went inside!!! Stunning!!	The door -- they have rebuilt the white stones (not the dark ones) the way they were laid like 5,000 years ago.
The view from the door to the left	Carvings on a stone	Impressive view	At Nowth where there are more intact burial mounds
Nowth -- they have protected the stones with an overhang	The guy on the left chain smoked, the guy in the middle chain smoked AND carried a boombox that he turned on -- fascinating!!!	They SAY that all these rocks have been placed exactly where they were so long ago....	View back to Newgrange
The mounds at Nowth	rocks and carvings	Now to the important stuff -- lunch!!	The view back to Newgrange
Neat bridge to take you across the river and the fields from the visitors center to the buses	Down the road a piece behind a farmhouse is this view......	Encrusted gravestones bracket the view of the castle	All that remains of the church
Gravestones and cows	Oh, and by the way, James Dowd is here too but we'll hardly mention him.....	Dinner in an Italian restaurant -- thanks Joan!	Tara!! Where it was a good 34 degrees with about a 20 mph sustained wind.....
did I mention it was cold??	And windy?	Castle in the background	Hostage Hill.....another burial mound
Christian church on Tara	This is how we get in and the cows stay out	Wonderful Abbey; it had been used and changed over the years	Fallen to ruins....
arched window casing	and cows in the background	One of the last owners added square windows	You can see along this wall all of the different window and door openings, most hundreds and hundreds of years old
A carving	Joan walked up the stairs!! The last time we saw Joan, she disappeared into the Abbey......	The stairs......	Different floor and roof heights
See the remnants of the stairs in this corner piece?	Couldn't pass this without taking a photo	The Yellow Tower from the roof of Trim Castle	The fabric roof they have installed at Trim; extremely well done to allow people to walk around and provide light
Out tour group; did I mention it was freezing??	Looking down at other parts of the castle grounds	This is where they used to have the cattle and sheep to feed the village	Bridge in Trim
The town main street in Trim	A bridge over a canal; cute! Look at the hanging plants!	There was a storm while we were taking these photos; look at the roughness of the water behind the building!!!	Another cute little town
Out there in the dark is a HUGE peat farm	Flat road!	Walked quite a ways to see that there rock there	The view to other peat farms
this was the walk to see that rock	Clonmacnoise -- a stunning stunning evening!	That's the river Shannon back there	You can see how this site inspires
This is the only one we saw like this!!!	the rain on my lens makes it look ethereal	Wonderful view	The tower
Then the sun came out after the rain.....	Carvings -- they're restoring these buildings	Notice the chalice and the host on this tomb	The evening light, so beautiful!
and the colors so rich	Stunning!	Breathtaking	And then there was a double rainbow!
It was so breathtaking, I just kept taking photos	Something, huh!	See how the rainbow actually ends on the land!!! There's the pot of gold!	The other end of the rainbow! This and the next two shots show the whole rainbow!!
We could see the whole thing!!	Both rainbows!!! Wow!!	Please, can we come into the lounge too???	Stephen putting his and Joan's card up in the pub!
The peat fire in the pub	And here's the peat!	Road from the B&B	Shannonbridge
Driving to Shannon airport......	......took us through several little towns	Stopped here for the loo and a nummy	pretty town in the rain
Keane's Groceries and Saloon Bar	Ennis -- the old town	The abbey in Ennis..................and then on to Shannon and home...

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Guest		31-Jan-2007 17:20
Thanks for sharing, fun gallery!

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