1. Ireland Trip August 18 – 25, 2001 © Michele Holland Mills 2001 Advance to the next slide by clicking on the arrows below, or by clicking on the title of the slide at the left.

2. Map – Dromoland Castle Dromoland Castle Newmarket-on-Fergus County Clare Ireland

3. Dromoland Castle, County Clare

5. Gardens at Dromoland Castle Michele and Kevin Mills, Mike and Janet Holland

6. Golf course at Dromoland Castle, County Clare

7. Inside Dromoland Castle

8. Map – County Clare County Clare Ireland

9. Fields in County Clare

11. County Clare Coast

13. County Clare coast

14. Cliffs of Moher, County Clare

17. Map - Eyeries, County Cork Eyeries Parish Beara Peninsula County Cork Ireland

18. Eyeries, County Cork

19. Gortaghig, Eyeries Parish, County Cork

20. Caherkeen Coast, County Cork

21. Coast near Allihies, County Cork

22. Map – Allihies Allihies Beara Peninsula County Cork Ireland

23. Allihies and Ballydonegan Bay

24. Allihies Village, Beara Peninsula, County Cork

25. Valley east of Allihies Village, County Cork

26. Miners cottage near north engine of the Mountain Mine at Allihies

27. Barrack Lane, Allihies The Houlihan’s (later Holland) lived on Barrack Lane in Allihies. It was a collection of rock houses that had thatched roofs and dirt floors, built in the early to mid-1800’s.

28. Barrack Lane

29. Wildflowers near Allihies

30. A deserted miners cottage from the mid 1800’s, Allihies Village, County Cork. A family with 12 children might have lived in this house.

31. View from the cemetery in Allihies

32. Flowers in County Cork

33. Ballydonegan Strand The Allihies Mountain Mine is on the mountainside. Ore from the mines was taken down the creeks and rivers to the bay, where it was loaded on ships and taken abroad. The sand on the beach on Ballydonegan Bay supposedly came from crushed rock that was washed down the creeks from the mines. Mine

34. View of Castletownbere Harbor from Gour, County Cork

35. Adrigole Harbour, County Cork

36. County Cork, possibly Kealkill

37. Blarney Castle County Cork Ireland

38. Blarney Castle, County Cork, Ireland

39. Main tower of Blarney Castle The Blarney Stone is at the top, just above the opening you see in the wall at the top. To kiss the stone you have to lie on your back and kiss the stone upside down.

40. Michele kissing the blarney stone

41. Michele and Kevin on top of Blarney Castle

42. Tower at Blarney Castle

43. Map – Jerpoint Abbey Jerpoint Abbey near Thomastown, County Kilkenny, Ireland

44. Jerpoint Abbey sign

45. Jerpoint Abbey founded about 1180

46. Jerpoint Abbey