Knock House

At Granny and grandad's house they have a farm and on the farm there are cows. A baby calf was born on Saturday and it was a browny orange colour. he also has 2 dogs and one is mean and his name is Ben. The other dog is called Sporty and he is a nice dog.

2nd on our list was Turlough Park,<br><br>This was a place where we got to see how landlords lived in the 19th century while taxing their people into poverty. This one was a bit different than most English landlords because this house belonged to the Fitzgerald family who were Irish. They were removed by the english from their home in wexford Ireland where they held 70,000 acres of great land and moved to ...

1st stop Ballintubber Abbey...<br> <br> This Abbey has been around for a while to say the least....It is here that St. Patrick baptized the people of the area in 441 A.D.. There is a bit of lore to how it came to be<br> in the modern state it is now. It was said that the clergy of the church took in the prince of Turloch because he was fleeing the vengeance of Turloch's queen who wanted her own son to sit the throne. The clergy of the ...

... pudding this morning..Sister Leigh said it tasted like dog, I thought it tasted like a biscuit that had been laying next to a sausage...Sister Carolyn thought it was a cross between a snausage and a bisuit....maybe Dad wasn't so far off that dog thing...<br><br>I am having a great time...looking up even more that I have my clothes...<br><br>sister carolyn here...all good...everyone still getting along...funny people on bus the first day two ladies late and we ...

... credit cards for a quick lunch. <br>We continued on to our castle adventure.<br> When we finally arrived at Ashford Castle we were amazed at the beautiful setting the approach is a long drive through a forest, you cross a bridge and there it is, the castle. The service is definitely 5 star. The entire staff was there to make us comfortable and make sure our experience was beyond our expectations. And it was beyond our ...

My bag has been packed. And re-packed. And unpacked. And squished.<br>I've informed the hotel of my late arrival.<br>I've got (some) foreign cash.<br>My electrical batteries are charged.<br>My print outs are in a waterproof folder in a waterproof bag.<br><br><br>Agh!<br>

... week. So far I have only had two English lecture classes, which I love. One class, Literature and Culture: Modernism and Postmodernism, is really really great. I have to read about 11 books, but they're great. Right now I am reading Lolita, but later I'm going to read Mrs. Dalloway, American Psycho, A Clockwork Orange, and others. In my Modern Irish Literature class I'll read, of course, Ulysses, and some Irish plays as well ...

... as I was only allowed one piece of hand luggage. I wasn't too happy about this but it did arrive in one piece once we arrived in Shannon. I picked up my hire car, a brand new Corsa, it's brilliant - I'm not going to enjoy getting back into my 10 year old Fiesta when I get home. Anyway I arrived early evening after a very scenic journey through Limerick and down through Kerry to Kenmare. I ...

Christmas was good but exhausting. Got everything done but I actually cried buckets it's very emotional seeing the last 10 years of your life (and the hoardings of about 17) go into the attic, but it all seems like a dream now. We worked like dogs 24th & 27-29th & then scrubbed the place, we were leaving at 9am on the Fri 30th so I was up at 6:30am vacuuming! Still we managed to go out 5 of ...

... of the hills on our right to the waterline on our left. There was next to no greenery in sight, no way for the barren and windswept terrain to be used to grow crops or for grazing livestock. That people were desperate enough to even try to farm here was real proof to me of the reality of the struggles and desperation to survive on the land during the potato famine. <br><br> We stopped for the night in Westport, the ...