Today we ended our three-night stay at the Dromhall in Killarney. We headed towards the Cliffs of Moher but made a couple of stops along the way. Our first stop was a tourist center in a small town called Adare, where there were a couple of cute little cottages across the street. Next, we went to Bunratty Castle. This quaint and picturesque castle and the folk park looked like a little town from an old movie.
We began with a detailed tour of the basement and the main guard room of the castle. We saw how the complexity and architecture of the castle increased and changed over the centuries, due to it changing inhabitants. We then ventured out on our own to explore the remaining rooms of the castle and the rest of the folk park.
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Extinct Irish deer mount, over 1,000 years old. |
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Baby goat(s) that were loose across from the artisan house. |
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The Doctor's House.
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Jerry then took us to the Cliffs of Moher, which are a part of the Burren region. The cliffs were formed about 320 million years ago and started as the mouth of a river delta that was eroded away to create the flagstone sedimentary cliffs that exist today. There was a walking path with a wall on the cliff side of it that spanned in either direction. However, we found that it was after we left those 'safe' paths and ventured onto the unprotected, somewhat precarious paths that the best views were to be found.
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O'Brien's Tower
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Cliffs |
Our last stop before our hotel was a picture stop amidst the Burren region. We stopped just a short jaunt from the ocean and walked over the limestone clints to take pictures by the water. Jerry also told us about the giant rocks that were scattered throughout this region; that they were placed by the glacial recession at the end of the last ice age.
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Small flowers peeking out between the giant exapanse of clints. |
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