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Travel Blogs from Roscommon, Ireland
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Lovely Leitrim
We arrived Saturday Evening in Carrick-on-Shannon, with a drive from Belfast to Eniskillen to Dowra to Carrick-on-Shannon, where the B&B is located, the Hartley Lodge, run by Martin and Ruth Hartley. They cook a great "full breakfast". The first ...
Wrapping things up before departure
... the 1920s, a rarity for sure. We decided to pay a suprise visit to a cousin of ours, Florrie McHugh in Boyle, county roscommon, and also to visit the tombstone firm there to have them fix up Uncle Pat's headstone in Drumkeeran. Her mother was ...
Around Ireland - Boyle and Stokestown
After a wonderful nights sleep we awoke refreshed and enjoyed a delicious Irish breakfast cooked by our hosts. Abbey House is delightful and the house has a huge dining room for breakfast and a comfortable lounge with open fire for meeting and watching ...
Impressive ruins
... the monastery became known as Saint Coman's Wood (Which translates in Irish to Ros Comáin). This was later Anglicized to Roscommon. [Wikipedia] The castle was built between 1269 and 1273. Again, it's so neat to visualize what was going on back when ...
Dinner on the Shannon River with family
... to phone to gain assistance......we aussies can find our way anywhere!!! PD & HD took AJ and CS for a drive to Roscommon to show us the Castle Ruin's that amazingly were still quite in tact. What an amazing sight with beautiful parklands surrounding ...
Ballinasloe to Boyle
We'd missed the bog stuff at Allen (because it was closed on weekends), so we really wanted to do the Bog Train of Clonmacnoise this morning. We’d picked up the flyer on it at the tourist info yesterday, and it had a cool train ride, some bog ...
Connemara Region
After a bitter cold night, we got up early in the morning to find heavy frost. But John was on a mission to Show us the countryside. So after a heavy Irish breakfst we headed towards Co Galway into the lovely Connemara region. ...
Camilla in OZ; the kids will play
Camilla went back to Bris Vegas for a week so Macayle, Dylan and I spent the weekend in Co. Roscommon; a couple of hours drive northwest of Dublin. The highlight was the Lough (Lock-lake) Key Forest and Activity Park. This inlcudes Adventure kingdom; the ...
The Abbey and a Megalithic tomb
... a nice older gentleman who told us a few stories of his past. One, was that he was friends with Maureen O'Sullivan, who was Ireland's first film star, and was also the first woman to play Jane in the original "Tarzan the Ape Man" movie. More recently, ...
Ronan & Barba's Big Day!
We left Sligo at about noon and headed our way to Ballyfarnan. Barb and Ronan were married at 1pm in small church. The ceremony was beautiful. The two of them look so happy. Shrtly after the ceremony we then made our way to Kilronan Castle to check into ...
Cloontuskert, Derrane , Boyle
More cemeteries today. One again the spirits are channeling to us, making it rain when we are way off base then bursting sunrays when we are on to something...so we choose to believe. Wrangled a good while with a Kelly stone from 1776. Hmmm. Not ...
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