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big breakfast of Weetabix cereal (like shredded wheat) and

bacon, sausage and egg with the usual half loaf of brown bread.

M is feeling better but I drive because I was more familiar with

Cong because of my solo outing last evening.

We go to the abbey ruins

again and took some slides

because there were so many

neat things –the winding

staircase, plants growing

out of the rock and windows

with many different shapes.

The Cong Abbey was

founded by St.

Féichín in 623 A.D.

in the Golden Age of

Ireland. The abbey

was destroyed by fire
in 1203 and rebuilt

some time later. It
was suppressed in 1542 by King Henry VIII of England. In

1880 the walls of the abbey were skillfully restored and it is

now under the care of the Office of Public Works. There is

supposed to be a stone carved somewhere on the grounds that

is shaped like the female breast. Some cures for breast cancer

are ascribed to this stone but we didn’t see it.

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