Cork - Blackrock Castle

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July 27 Friday - Had an interesting but tiring day. I took the 202 bus out to Blackrock Castle. It was a castle built by the English to protect the approaches from the sea to the port of Cork from the Spanish as well as to protect the English rulers from the people of Cork. It has been converted into an observatory and science center and for €6 you can tour the science center as well as part of the castle.

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Photos

Lunch
Caeser Salad and tea

memorial to the Irish who fought in WW 1
A memorial to all the Irish who died in WW 1. He doesn't look too happy to be dying for England.

Site of the Queens castle
The site of where the Queens castle used to be. Now the castle and the Queen are both gone....at least from Ireland.

notice how empty the streets were
I guess everyone went to the Olympics.

The hostel is under the fish
The fish of the bell tower for St Anne's Church was a good marker for finding my way back to the hostel.