The Dingle peninsula is a really amazing place and if you have time don’t miss it. It is so beautiful and it has so many interesting places to stop and see and learn. The town of Dingle itself is quite touristy but it’s fun to walk around this Port town. I stayed in the Base which is a hotel and it was much more than sufficient. To see music in the evening I went to the dingle pub and a nice thing was the local flavor of the tunes and the amount amount of fiddle music. It was really a great experience.
Tralee
St. John’s parish
the rose of Tralee it’s about a couple who fell in love, the woman far below the gentleman’s station in life and so of course the families wanted them separated so the gentleman’s family sent him off to war. The woman died before he could get back and she was his rose.
The rose of TraleeThis must be the place to go if you want to understand more about drinking.
this town doesn’t seem to be very busy and not very touristy but it’s a cute little town and maybe because it’s not so busy it would be an easy place to find accommodation and it definitely is worth stopping by during the day at least.
on to the Peninsula
the fairy Circle is actually a small circle inside a larger circle which you can walk around. It has not been extensively excavated and it’s on private land so in that respect it’s kind of interesting, left pretty much the way people found it hundreds of years ago. For a nominal fee you can enter the area and they give you some food that you can give to the sheep, the donkeys, the pigs and any other animals that happen by. The land is owned by a family of farmers. The father is 87 years old and has a heart problem so he doesn’t manage the entrance fee collection. Instead the granddaughter is there and she had her very young baby with her at the time. Have a chat with her. She is a very nice and interesting person. This is a fun place to go with the kids.
Sheep everywhere and interested in foodThey even have donkeys but you’re not so interested in you touching them The food that is dropped on the ground of course can be picked up by the birdsYou can see the small fairy circle just on the left why are you are standing on the larger circleFrom the top of the larger circle you can see the whole area enclosed in the large circle itself. In the center is the small smaller circle This site was closed at the time. I am pretty sure it’s on private land and the land owners were just not down at the booth to collect the fare at that time This is one of the cottages from a distance I didn’t go to this attraction since it only accepted cash and I didn’t have any Small money with meA nice view on the coast This is one of the forts and there is an entrance here to a space down below which requires stooping down and a flashlight This is the fort from the top Older buildings with new roofs Of course this one was just left to fall apart. People often take the stones from these older buildings Ocean view You can see the brown hills in the back and you wonder why they’re brown since there is so much rain, three days rain and one day sunshine. I was told by a tour bus driver that it must be a different kind of vegetation since it does turn green around June and JulyThis was obviously some ancient structure These islands are just off the coast and are not now inhabited. This historical museum was established to preserve the history, writings, culture, music and the language.The old writing I recognize these right away. They are sheep shears for cutting the wool off of the sheep. My grandfather had a pair of these and I use them to trim the grass edge at home every Saturday This is one of the old boats upside down built from a wooden frame and a canvas hull which made it very light at maneuverable and enabled the people on the islands to get to the mainland quickly or to go out and fish quickly and then get back quickly before the weather turned bad which can happen very suddenly.The flag of Ireland An old monastic structure This is one of the amazing places in Ireland, a Christian religious church made completely out of stone which remained intact for so many hundreds of years.This is the church The surrounding area Inside the church ceilingIt is out in the middle of farms I think they knew that I was a secret agent Music in the evening at the Dingle pubDick Mack’s pub was recommended to me since it is partly owned by a very famous musician of traditional Irish musicThey very kindly replaced the “chips“, french fries, with a saladA photo of the original owner of the dingle pub. The fellow on the right is a Brosnan, but probably not related to Pierce BrosnanI was a teenager when I got my first album of Chieftain’s music. About 10 years ago I saw them live in Arizona.
