Wednesday, May 18, 2016

Muckross House

Started the day with a quick visit to Ross Castle - an original tower house on the shore of an interior lake and fought over in Elizabethan times. 

Then up to Muckross House where we managed to get in the first public tour (we think) at 10:30. The house was gifted to the Irish government around the early 1920's. Queen Victoria visited with Prince Albert and four children the year he Prince died.

After the house, we revisited N71 (the road) from yesterday, through Moll's Gap again, but this time it wasn't raining, so we got to see what was behind the fog...
Then headed through Skibbereen, stopped for lunch at a Tidal flats basin in Rosscarbery, and on to Cork, where we are for the night.

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