Farmers Work With Their Dog
Finnbar, Tommy And Others
The Traveling Trio On Their Last Day Well here we are on our last day in Dingle. We will be leaving soon to drive over to the Shannon area so that we can leave in the morning about 11:00 am.
Yesterday was another wonderful day, made more so by the first full day of no rain and mostly sunny weather. We went to church at St. James Church which is the local Church Of Ireland church in Dingle. A small group, only the vicker and 6 others besides ourselves. It is a great little church, very simple but just what you would expect in Dingle. This church hosts music concerts 3 times a week during the summer.
With the Sun out we took a drive out by Eagle Mt and down to Don Quon at the end of the peninsula. And then we found two archaeological sites just down the road from our cottage that were absolutely wonderful. While we were there our neighbors were out herding a flock of their sheep with their sheep dog, this was just a delight to watch and guess what? Ron got some pictures of the whole thing.
Last night we made it into town to hear one more traditional music session. This was a very large session with maybe up to eight musicians including a friend of ours, Finbarr Murphy. Finbarr is a man about my age who I have been blogging with over the last few months. His two sons own Murphy's Ice Cream Shop and the blog in the list of links for the Dingle Ice Cream Man is theirs. Finbarr, plays the harmonica, bones and botton box.
We made one last stop at the Kilmalkedar site next to our cottage this morning to commune with the spirits before we left.
We are all so glad that we made this trip and have had such a wonderful time. We are already planning our return and feel that it will probably be right back here in the Dingle area. We are thinking that we may change the time of year to September/ October.
Now it is on to Shannon. We are planning on going by way of Connor Pass one last time. The weather is a little iffy today, but we want to try it anyway.
We feel good that we are leaving the Dingle economy in much better shape than when we arrived!
Comments
It was so kind and generous of you to share your vacation. I loved following along day to day with you on your Irish Adventure. The photos are great and your narrative made it seem like we were a part of your trip.
Thank you. Blessings to you.
Rosann
Stay tuned for more comments about the Ice Cream Shop in our next blog entry.
If you send me your email address I will be happy to forward some more pictures of your dad and the shop.