I was too sore from yesterday’s stomping around Blarney Gardens, contorting to kiss the Stone and full from breakfast for 4 to do much today so I went to walk it off in Cork, Ireland’s second largest city. Belfast, Dublin, Derry/Londonderry, Limerick, Galway, Cork, I’ve now hit the 6 largest ones. A couple of churches, […]

In 1789 Richard Blackwell was born, son of Richard and Ellen.  Jr. emigrated at some point to Somerville, MA.  I am decended from them and so I find myself in Limerick, Ireland in an attempt to flesh out ancestral history a little more, sadly to no avail.  I have to be content with walking the […]

Or Inish Mór has an area of 31 km2 (12 sq mi) & with a population of about 840 it has the largest populate of the 3 islands that make up the Aran Islands. One can get the shuttle for Galway center (my hostess  Orla drove me there so I wouldn’t miss it) and then a 1 1/4 hour […]

I met Paul Sayers walking the Derry/Londonderry walls and we began to chat.  I told him I was heading to Giant’s Causeway the next day and he offered advice.  He told me that rather than go into the Visitor Center and pay the £10.50/$14. and then walk a tarmac road to the 40,000 or so […]