Have you ever visited Ireland? If so what was your favorite part?

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8. Yes, a wonderful July in 1993

All of it spent in west County Cork visiting with my wife’s brother sister in law and their children. We wondered around in the various towns and villages sampling the incredible fresh foods including pub grub.

Our home base was Ardfield, from there we travelled east to Timoleague with a delightful country pub and the ruins of an abbey, Kinsale which is a beautiful town, just off shore the Lusitania was sunk, going westward many places, our favorite being Drombeg and the little church of St. Finbar.The town closest to Ardfield is Clonakilty where we at lunch many times at a hotel. Skibbereen was close by as well.

We are rural people so we were right at home with others like us. There was more I wwould’ve like to see such as County Kerry, the cliffs of Mohar (sic) and Galway which has a famous used book store. Oh, a trip to New Grange if some else did the driving. I enjoyed driving around our little nook of Ireland but long trips would be tiring. Thanks for the memories.

Here’s the stone circle, Drobeg.


And close by St Finbarat Gougane Barra. Gene and Eileen were married in this church 25 years before.