Day 5 - Killarney

Dunguaire Castle:

Visited Corcomroe Abbey a 13th century Cistercian monastry on the Burren.  We thought Patrick was saying "The Burn" but it was the Burren which comes from an Irish word "Boireann" meaning a rocky place. It is all exposed rock hills.  Now a national park.  It is thought that it used to have trees on it but early farmers cut down the trees and the soil got swept away and only rock remains.

This is the Portal Tomb on the Burren known as Poulnabrone Dolmen.

Drove through Lisdoonvarna a match making village! Then on to the Cliffs of Moher.  Ireland really turned on the weather for us.  "A little bit of mist" (according to Patrick) was to anyone other than an Irish man cold wind, rain and fog. The visitor center was reminiscent of Ski cafeterias. We braved the weather and walked along the top of the cliffs to the look out and took photos of white fog - just to prove we were there.

Caught the ferry across the Shannon river to County Kerry and on to the Kingfisher Lodge in Killarney, a luxury B and B for 3 nights.