Ballymascanlon House Hotel
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Travel Blogs from Dundalk
A Day of Information and Reflection
... fascinating – providing information the situation that I had no idea still existed. I thought that the troubles were over. It was also just terribly sad to think that people live like this and there appears to be no answers in the immediate future to resolve any of it. Joel, our guide, told us that his wife’s girlfriend had gone to Australia, married an Australian and they had moved back to Belfast. This fellow wanted a tour so Joel took him, and took ...
Nifty Newgrange
... equinoxes. So when you stand inside in the passageway, at dawn on the solstice the sun comes in and lights up the interior cavern.
Today was the fall equinox, or near enough to that the sun came in anyway. Of course, we didn't realize that until we decided to show up, around noon, only to see the posters saying "come on out at dawn to check out the coolness!"
Oops.
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Ethereal Ireland
... site at Knowth was impressive and the artwork on the large kerb stones was really well preserved. There were many smaller passage tombs, called satellite tombs, crowded around the main tomb which made for an interesting landscape. We were also allowed to walk on top of the main tomb to see the rest of the valley at Knowth. Next we went to the Newgrange site which, unlike Knowth had a perfectly intact interior ...
Charming, medieval Carlingford
... she'd not long had her morning feed. Matt and I had something to eat while we enjoyed the view, and then went back to our room at 8.00am. I gave Emma a bath then had a shower. I had to get my hair dried because she was already getting tired.
Matt hadn’t had a very good night’s sleep, so he was keen to have nap this morning when Emma did. I put her to bed just before 9.00am and ...
Down to Dundalk and in to Ireland
... in to buy Emma some food and was relieved to see they still sell Plum brand baby food here. After that we had a quick look around the centre but it wasn’t very big or much else we wanted to look at so we headed off.
We got back to the hotel around 2.30pm and put Emma down for a sleep just before 3.00pm. Matt wanted a nap and I wasn’t going to sit up on my own so I napped too. Emma woke up ...
Amenities
- Restaurant
- Swimming pool
- Room service
- Free High-Speed Internet
- Wheelchair accessibility
- Fitness/Health center