ireland-1997

We toured southern and northern Ireland. It was shortly after the Good Friday Peace Accord, so we wanted to go in search of O'Neall ancestors ... whom we did not find.

1 Ireland 1997 tour Here is where we went.	2 Luimneach Luimneach (Limerick) Castle	3 Ireland 1997 Irish road, between Shannon, where we arrived, and Cashel	4 Athassel Priory Ruined monastery, 13th century	5 Cashel Round tower
6 Cashel Cashel Rock, seat of the kings of Munster, built mostly in the 12th-13th centuries	7 Cashel Our first Irish breakfast	8 Kilkenny Downtown Kilkenny	9 Kilkenny Irish houses	10 Jerpoint Abbey Tourist at the abbey
11 Jerpoint Abbey Cistercian abbey, built in 1180	12 Dublin Sandycove strand and Joyce's Martello Tower	13 Dublin Actor "reading" the Martello-Tower episode from Ulysses on Bloomsday, 16 June	14 Dublin Davy Byrnes Pub, featured in Ulysses	15
16 Dublin Grafton Street	17 Dublin Trinity College	18 Dublin Our cantine, the Duke Tavern, in Duke Street	19 Dublin National Library of Ireland, where we did not find any info on our ancestors	20 Dublin Mr Joyce
21 Dublin James Joyce Center	22 Dublin The door to No. 7 Eccles Street, now installed in the courtyard cafe of the James Joyce Center	23 Monasterboice Round tower	24 Monasterboice Beautiful Celtic cross, c. 10th c.	25 Monasterboice Cats on base of cross
26 Mellifont Abbey Lavabo	27 Knowth Megalithic burial mounds	28 Knowth Rock carvings	29 Knowth Grain storage area	30 Newgrange Newgrange passage tomb (in the rain), built around -3000
31 Newgrange Umbrellas at the entrance	32 Newgrange Megalithic rock carvings on entrance stone	33 Tullhaghogue Ancestral coronation stone for the Clan O'Neil, in the middle of a field	34 Lough Neagh The largest lake in Ireland or the British Isles	35 Shane's Castle American John at French John's mausoleum
36 Shane's Castle Lakefront and orangery of the castle	37 Shane's Castle The castle	38 Shane's Castle Tourist at the ruins	39 Skerry Church Skerry Church, where the Catholic O'Neils were once buried, is now an empty ruin.	40 Skerry Church And this was not easy to find.
41 Skerry Church The other side	42 Carnlough Carnlough Strand	43 Carnlough Birds on the beach and hedgerowed fields	44 Glenariff A beautiful Irish glen and park on the coast of County Antrim	45 Glenariff Stream in the Glenariff Forest Park
46 Glenariff Siv at Glenariff	47 Glenariff Rhododendrons were in full bloom everywhere.	48 Glenariff Ess na Larach Fall	49 Ossian's Grave Supposed grave of legendary Irish poet	50 Antrim Coast The beautiful Antrim Coast
51 Antrim Coast Water, grass, hills	52 Antrim Coast "Shane O'Neill's Cairn" near Cushendon, erected in 1908	53 Antrim Coast You can see Scotland on the other side.	54 Antrim Coast The Antrim Coast Road is really only one lane wide, so why do they paint a line down the middle?	55 Antrim Coast Glen after glen
56 Giant's Causeway Tourist on basalt column	57 Giant's Causeway Wind-blown tourist	58 Grianan of Aileach An Iron-Age fortress in County Donegal	59 Grianan of Aileach Inside the fortress	60 Donegal The Diamond (the central square)
61 Drumcliff Tourist at the tomb of WIlliam Butler Yeats	62 Carrowmore Carrow more is the site of about 30 megalithic tombs, like this menhir.	63 Galway Downtown Galway	64 Galway This guy just cannot stay out of a bookstore. Especially Kenny's!	65 The Burren South of Galway, the Burren is one of the largest karst landscapes in Europe.
66 The Burren Rocks and water	67 The Burren A beautiful day	68 The Burren Flowers	69 The Burren And another narrow Irish road	70 The Burren Typical Irish road, with rock wall or hedge so close to the road there is no way to get off it
71 The Burren Some rock wall	72 Cliffs of Moher Beautiful cliffs	73 Cliffs of Moher Tourist at the cliffs	74 Cliffs of Moher It was very windy and very cold.	75 The Burren Poulnabrone Dolmen with tourist
76 Thor Ballylee The tower where Yeats lived with his wife, George, and family