Ireland September 2006
Pictures of my four week tour of Ireland, September 6 to October 4, 2006.
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1 - Dublin Castle
2 - Dublin's Spire, the world's largest sculpture, 393' tall
3 - Pub crawling in Temple Bar, Dublin
4 - The sea side of the Howth Peninsula, a suburb of Dublin I stayed in
5 - Howth Castle
6 - Ireland's Eye, an island off the Howth Peninsula
7 - Ireland's Eye, an island off the Howth Peninsula
8 - A hiking trail on the Howth Peninsula
9 - Malahide Castle, also near my Dublin B&B
10 - A youth soccer match in Malahide
11 - Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland's oldest college, 1592
12 - Waterfall in the Wicklow Moutains south of Dublin
13 - Glendalough, a monestery founded in 617
14 - Wicklow coast
15 - Remains of Wicklow's Black Castle, 1169
16 - Kilkenny Castle
17 - Part of the parking lot for the Guinness brewery in Kilkenny
18 - St. Canice Church in Kilkenny, with a 1020 year old tower (which I climbed)
19 - Burnt Church Castle, in a farmers field
20 - The Rock in Cashel
21 - Kinsale
22 - Camping in Clonakilty
23 - What a beautiful place to play golf, Dumore Golf Club, Clonakilty
24 - I parred this hole, over the deep crevass
25 - Secluded beach east of Baltimore
26 - Rathmore House B&B, Baltimore
27 - View from my room in the Rathmore House
28 - Cape Clear Island, a 45 minute ferry ride, rained most of the time I was on the island
29 - Cape Clear Island is Ireland's southernmost island
30 - The Baltimore Beacon, Sherkin Island light house across the inlet
31 - That's a cow on the cliff in the upper left
32 - Cows in Ireland have made!
33 - The sheep don't have too bad either
34 - Coast east of Baltimore
35 - Trying to get lost; I succeeded
36 - Altar wedge tomb, 2000 bc
37 - Banty Bay
38 - Hungry Hill waterfall, Ireland's highest, over 100 meters
39 - One of many wate falls on the Healy Pass road
40 - Healy Pass Road
41 - Start of the Ring of Kerry
42 - Ring of Kerry
43 - Ballycarberry Castle
44 - End of Ring of Kerry
45 - Ross Castle, Killarney
46 - Start of the Dingle Peninsula
47 - And I'm supposed to drive on the left
48 - Bottom of the Dingle Peninsula
49 - Bottom of the Dingle Peninsula
50 - Dark side of the Dingle Peninsula
51 - more Dingle Peninsula
52 - Dingle Peninsula waterfall
53 - View from my Abbey Tourist Hostel room
54 - Abbey Tourist Hostel, Ennis, Clare
55 - Downtown Ennis
56 - There was some rain from the hurricanes that missed the US
57 - Cliffs of Moher
58 - Cliffs of Moher
59 - The Burren, many square miles of exposed rock
60 - Dunguaire Castle
61 - View from my Oughterard hotel
62 - Kylemore Abbey
63 - Killary Adventure Center and B and B
64 - View from the Killary Adventure Center
65 - Watch out on the blind curves
66 - Castle
67 - On the way to Slieve League
68 - Sheep grazing precariously on the cliffs
69 - When I first arrived at Slieve League, clouds hid half the cliffs
70 - Slieve League, highest sea side cliffs in Europe
71 - From Slieve League looking east
72 - From Slieve League looking south
73 - Slieve League, looking at Lough
74 - Slieve League, looking down
75 - Slieve League, at sunset
76 - Two more light houses, west of Slieve League
77 - Waterfall
78 - B and B
79 - Carrickabraghy Castle
80 - Thach roof
81 - Windy day, probably over 60 mph
82 - The wind was off the shore, so the waves did not build, the tops were blown off
83 - The Town Clock Pub
84 - Ferry to Northern Ireland
85 - Mussenden Temple
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87 - North Sea oil platform, the only one I saw
88 - North Coast
89 - Dunluce Castle
90 - North Coast
91 - Giants Causway
92 - Giants Causway
93 - Giants Causway
94 - Giants Causway
95 - Giants Causway
96 - Giants Causway
97 - Just east of the Giants Causway
98 - Just east of the Giants Causway
99 - Giants Causway
100 - Carrick-A-Rede rope bridge
101 - Belfast City Hall
102 - Queen's University, Belfast
103 - Albert Memorial Clock , teaning tower of Belfast
104 - Belfast Botanic Gardens
105 - Carlingford Lough
106 - Carlingford Castle
107 - Carlingford
108 - Carlingford
109 - Carlingford Lough
110 - Proleek Portal Tomb, 3000 BC, capstone weighs at least 35 tons
111 - Back to the Howth Peninsula for a game of golf just before my return home
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