Blogs from County Tipperary, Ireland, Europe - page 2

We had reserved catered breakfast for Sunday morning—John and Teresa, owners, will cater dinner or breakfast if you reserve it in advance. One portion of the group had reserved dinner Saturday evening and all of us had agreed on breakfast Sunday morning. It was excellent—great tea, especially! To get started on the touring, we went to Cahir, to the Castle, after 11:30 mass—no music, none of this singing and messing about. Good, thoughtful Homily and out of there in 30 minutes. Lovely church, beautiful windows. Mike and I arrived fairly early (faster walk into town than we expected), took a seat and looked at the beautiful surroundings. A few people arrived here and there and about 11:27, with a 'whoosh' (figuratively), the church filled with people. Drove to the town of Cahir, thinking to see the ... read more

Ireland is a country that revels in its history. Traditional music is everywhere, houses that don't fit the style of the past are rare and events such as a battle between a king of another country and his father-in-law that happened in the 1600s are celebrated with fervour in some quarters. Lough Gur is a place where you can be nice and close to really old Irish history. Lough Gur is the site of one of the earliest known settlements on the island of Ireland 6,000 years ago. There is physical evidence of occupation from the Neolithic time, through the Bronze Age, Iron Age, Early Christian and Medieval to today. The site allows archaeologists, historians and the rest of us ordinary mortals the opportunity to see and hear about how our forebears have gone about addressing ... read more

Staying in a small apartment which has been built above a garage. Near Horse and Jockey (!) and not far from Thurles--pronounced Tur-less. My change fro 5 Euro when I bought an apple and a choclate bar was "tree turty". A young bloke I got talking to had just completed a Community Studies course in Thurles and wanted to get into "yute work"--nothing to do with Holdens. You get the idea. Countryside is pretty, rolling country and very green. Dairying is the main type of agriculture and the not unpleasant smell of dairy cow shit hangs in the air where I am staying. I have a VW Golf which is ideal, the roads are good to adequate and traffic is pretty light. Signage is good and I am finding my way around. Went straight to Ballycahill ... read more

Geo: 52.5168, -7.89117Christine M KeefeCFOMetro Imaging, LLC... read more

Geo: 52.376, -7.92551Christine M KeefeCFOMetro Imaging, LLC... read more