My first trip to Ireland.

[mirafioriman]

Firstly apologies to Mark and Robert who kindly offered to meet me during my stay. Unfortunately I did not manage to get to them. Hopefully next time!

I took lots of photos while I was there. A small selection are here:

http://s188.photobucket.com/albums/z196/carinstalls/Ireland%202009/

Perhaps some of our members can name some of the Irish places in some of the photos?

[kev131]

That's a very nice selection of photos and to my shame I don't recognise any of them - The old story of not knowing what is on one's own doorstep. 

Looks like you had some nice weather Dave.

[mirafioriman]

Weather was great, only one wet day (Wednesday). I will give a few other forum members a chance before revealing all (if I need to!) Depends which part of Ireland you come from I could not name many places in the UK except the ones near me or very obvious like Big Ben etc!

Everyone was so friendly and the food and service in cafes and restaurants was excellent. We did find it expensive though as the Pound is so weak against the Euro.

[brensport]

Dave hope you enjoyed it  next trip to killarney i hope in a mirafiori

[eugene]

Dave,glad to hear that you liked Eire.Get rid of the pound and join the Euro.Problem solved .Eugene

[sam22]

hi dave good to hear that you had a good trip to ireland, and that the weather was kindto you, like kev131 i do not recognise any of the photos,...........
  seamus

[eugene]

I believe one of the photos is the rock of Cashel.Thats the castle thats built on the rock.Eugene

[mirafioriman]

First points to Eugene

There are actually two shots of 'the rock' I think.

[gerafiori]

rock of cashel
3rd pic is abbey close to rock of cashel
holycross abbey
stainedglass window is as above
swan outside on the river {suir/?}
village is dundrum
swiss cottage in cahir{worth a visit}
gardens are as you walk up to the cottage
cahir castle 
ship is waterford
rosslare ferry term
is there a bit of tipperary in your bloodlines dave?

[mirafioriman]

Some good spots there, you obviously know Tipperary! Just one that caught you out, the gardens and one of the buildings is Blarney Castle (we had a day out).

The church hall (which was once the church) is in Anacarty near Dundrum. This is where my great great Grandfather was baptised in 1840 and his parents were married before then. So I do have some Irish blood.