On the road to Kilcar
( Co. Galway to Co. Donegal )

 


Our travels through Connemara was another scenic one.  Beautiful mountains and lakes (two major ranges - Twelve Bens and Maamturks) left and right.  Lots of bogland.  We stopped to admire some peat.  It's great as a replacement for firewood - supposedly gives off a nice aroma.

Peat



Kylemore Castle is now an abbey and a school for girls.  Wouldn't it be nice to go to school here on the edge of a lake in the midst of mountains?  Well, considering that it rains here almost 365 days a year....no.

Kylemore Castle Kylemore


In Co. Sligo, we stopped at W.B. Yeats grave.  He composed his epitaph a year before his death in France, 1939.  His wife George is buried at his feet:

Drumcliff church

 W.B. Yeats
Under Bare Ben Bulben's head
In Drumcliffe churchyard Yeats is laid.
An ancestor was rector there
Long years ago, a church stads near,
By the road an ancient cross.
No marble, no conventional phrase;
On limestone quarried near the spot
By his command these words are cut:
Cast a cold eye
On life, on death.
Horseman pass by!


Our cute little pet sheep June (at the Kilcar hostel):

June and Sandy June and Gretchen

 

 

   

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