Page 51 - Trip to Ireland Final Flip Book

We turn and drive past miles of very

desolate landscape and finally get to the

park which is marked by four dolman

shaped stones. We drive in and for £1, you we get a ticket each

for the film and bus to the castle.

We have no time for the film

because it was almost 5 p.m.
and the castle closes at 6

p.m. We park and go right
to the bus and it takes us

along a lake with wild red-

purple rhododendrons

blooming on all sides. A

small island is almost

covered with them. It is still cloudy so pictures didn’t do the

place justice.

We go past several stone walls with gates with stone deer heads

and the gate to the castle is adorned with stone birds. The

castle is gray stone

(what else?) and

doesn’t look old but we

didn’t know the history

at that point so we
could only wonder why

anyone would build
such a huge place way

out there in the middle

of nothing.

51