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Friday, July 31, 2009

They Speak Irish in Ireland ♥ 2:56 AM


On our last day in Ireland the tour bus took us on a route back to Dublin. The first place we stopped that morning was at a fairy ring. For a country of very Catholic people, the Irish are the most superstitious people I've ever met. Fairy rings are the rings left by temporary houses that people living there many, many years ago had built and long since abandoned and now fairies supposedly live there. If you walk around the fairy ring, which is a bit raised from the ground and thank the fairies as you leave, they may grant you a wish. However if you go inside the fairy ring, you will forever have bad luck. The legend/story is that the Kennedy's must have had a relative who walked into a fairy ring and their family is cursed because of it.

Next we stopped at at Poll na Bron, which is a portal tomb. It is a very old tomb, there are others across Ireland, that they think must have been used as a part of a pagan ritual due to the way that people were buried in them. They are supposed to create a portal for the dead from life to after life.

Then we got back on the bus and drove to Clondmacnoise, which is a very old monastery that has a big graveyard and the monastery itself is in ruins. They also have two of the old Celtic high crosses there. It was really cool and scenic, even though it started to rain on us a bit while we where there and Claire took a fall down a little hill.

Then our tour took a different turn and we stopped for a tour of an old distillery - John Locke whiskey. They no longer make the whiskey there and they only distill a small amount, but they've kept the brewery mostly as it was many years ago and turned it into a museum.

Overall, it was an absolutely amazing weekend. Ireland is a beautiful country and I'm so glad we went, and I also thought that our tour was great because it gave us an opportunity to go and see places in Ireland that would have been nearly impossible and so difficult for us to go to on our own. Here's my photos from the trip, I took a lot be prepared for a lot of the same scenery.


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