Paddy's Palace Dingle Peninsula
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Day Four – Castles and Tombs
... going to get a little handsy when the lights went out!
Our next stop was Trim or St John’s Castle in Trim. It is the largest Norman castle in Ireland. It was completed in the early thirteenth century. As with many castles, the original was a wooden castle and after the last fire, it was rebuilt in stone. We had nice tour guide that realized that she could joke around with us. At one point, we ...
Tidy Trim
I'm serious. There were signs everywhere proclaiming Trim as the tidiest town in all of Ireland. There was even a contest and they only came in second.
We stopped off at Trim Castle, which might be recognizable to fans of Braveheart, because apparently it was (at least partially) filmed there. So yes, we have an Irish castle and ...
Churchy Clonmacnoise
Today we went to Clonmacnoise. Like Glendalough, it was an old monastic settlement that ended up attracting a lot of monk followers. Unlike Glendalough, it was raided soooooooooo many times, by vikings, Irishmen, Englishmen... anyone who happened to be in the area. Clonmacnoise used to be a place where the monks were very good at crafts, including gold and silverworking, but mostly drawing and ...
Baron of Birr
... and built a telescope. The telescope, known as the Leviathan of Parsonstown was built in the 1840s and was the largest telescope in the world until 1917. It's about 50 feet long. At the time, the big astronomical discovery attributed to the Third Earl (his real name was William Parsons) was that galaxies were spiral in shape. They actually have a ...
Vanquishing Vikings
... Lawrence River) that used to all be populated by monks and hermits, who would build churches. Then, turns out, the vikings like to raid churches cuz they figure they have money and treasure. So the vikings would raid, and finally figured out that it was a nice place to live, so they settled in the area.
Apparently, the local famous viking is one by the name of Scabby Head.
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