Day 32 Limerick to Killarney 18 May 2018

The forecast is cloudy with sunny periods. Before leaving Limerick we visited St Mary’s Cathedral and King John’s castle, the latter built in 1210. There were murder holes from where they poured oil on to the attackers.

There was some appalling graffiti which was mesmerising. Was it the eyeball in the ice cream, watching your calories or was it the Hello Kitty tattoo.

Currently there is going to be a referendum on legal abortion. In the last vote in 1992, only 35% were in favour.  We suspect that public opinion has changed since then.

The walls that the Vikings built are still visible and we visited the cathedral.

The Treaty Stone symbolized the treaty after the Battle of the Boyne 1691 between the Jacobites and the Williamites. They had to put the original in a museum as people were removing bits.  This is a replica.

We stopped in Adare to look at the English thatched cottages (only in Ireland). One had burnt down recently and they were lucky to have not lost the adjoining one.

Also there are the remains of a Trinitarian monastery and now Trinity Abbey.

We stopped for a free Irish whiskey and overpriced shopping. Our tour guide told us that because of the weather, we would travel the Ring of Kerry today, and we could have tomorrow off. We then proceeded to go around the roundabout twice. It doesn’t seem funny but it really was, as we were so trusting and it made sense. We found it hilarious, perhaps you had to be there.

After lunch in Killarney, we then checked into our lovely art deco hotel. Even now as I type this the clip clop of a horse and buggy down below on the road. It must be peak hour at the moment.