26 Jun 2024, Wednesday

Prioritized Daily Task

call Register of Deeds Office in Dublin +353-51-303-000 will be back Monday, July 8th

check out Clayton Hotel Cardiff Lane Hotel in Dublin

1 hour from From Dublin: Celtic Boyne Valley and Ancient Sites Tour—9:00-5:45

Monasterboice-free, Battle of the Boyne Visitor Centre-4 euros-senior-pay for tickets there, Newgrange

Brú na Bóinne Visitor Centre Newgrange and Knowth, Brú na Bóinne, Stalleen, Donore, Co. Meath, A92 EH5C, Ireland

Ref #211785 2 Senior tickets 9:30

32 minutes to Trim Castle—9-5:00

Trim Town Centre has pay and display parking 9:00-18:00 Monday to Saturday with an hourly rate of €1.00.

Special offer; all-day parking for €3.00 available in Emmet Street Car Park, Trim. Emmet Street Carpark is 3 minutes’ walk from Trim Castle Entrance. Special Offer: €3.00 All day parking Jonathon Swift Car park which is beside a playground and 5 minutes’ walk to Trim Castle Entrance.

From Trim Castle-1 hour and 14 minutes to Bed and Breakfast-booking.com

Clonmacnoise Shannonbridge Co Offaly, Clonmacnoise, Ireland

Excellent Location — 9.2. Owner's name is Joe and his partner, Jackie

Note: eat bogs are dense wetlands filled with partially decayed vegetation. The waterlogged conditions and the bog's acidity prevents the vegetation from fully decaying when it dies. Instead, it builds up very slowly over thousands of years to become peat. Sometimes the peat can be metres deep.

Peat has been harvested for centuries by a method known as “cutting.” While this in more recent times been a mechanical process, traditionally peat was cut by hand with a sharp hoe. The peat would then be stacked and laid out to dry in the sun before being used as fuel.

Eventually, the peat is converted to lignite, a poor-quality of coal. If the peat or lignite, is subjected to greater pressure, it can become sub-bituminous or even bituminous coal. Given enough pressure and, heat coal can become diamonds

Mick Hughes - Phone 00353-86-8820760; email: mhughesanddassociates@gmail.com - owner of Stock House Restaurant in Trim, Ireland - supports relief efforts for the people in Ukraine

We were up early at 6 am; had prayer, showered, and got ready for the day. We checked out of the Clayton Hotel and ate a big breakfast before I got our rental car from the parking lot. I came back to the hotel, picked Debbie up; loaded our luggage, and drove to Brú na Bóinne Visitor Centre. I called the Register of Deeds office and spoke to the girl who helped me yesterday. I told her I had left Dublin and would not be there tomorrow to pick up the copy of Robert and Sarah McCalpin and Samuel Allen's deed dated 2 December 1728. I made arrangements for them to keep the deed and I will pick it up Monday, July 8th. Our first two stops on our tour of ancient mounds were to Knowth and Newgrange. We walked around and went up steps to the flat top of Knowth. A group had homes and lived on top of the mound. there were places where the houses sunk and one house had an escape route down in the mound and out. There were several small mounds around the large mound. The second stop a few miles away was Newgrange. It had quarts stones that reflected sunlight and could be seen for a long distance. They are lined up with the sun and moon Equinox and once a year rays from the sun (Winter Equinox) fill the small chamber in the shape of a cross with light. There were two large bowl stones in the chamber that were too large to have been brought in. The mound was built over them. Some of the stones brought here weigh over ten tons. The capstone to the cavern weighs about 3 tons and is covered with several meters of dirt. from the floor of the cavern to the top is about 19 meters. Our tour guide told us that not one drop of water has ever got in the cavern in a place where there are many bogs and lots of rain. Knowth and Newgrange World Heritage Sites in Boyne Valley, Ireland, there is a third, Dowth, but we did not go there. We drove to, the Battle of Boyne Visitor's Center. The battle was fought on July 1, 1690, between the armies of King William III and King James II, on the banks of the River Boyne in County Meath. King William had a well-trained Catholic army that wanted to keep Ireland Catholic and an army from Scotland and Ireland who wanted to install King James as a Protestant King over Ireland, Scotland, England, Wales, etc. Because of the French and Indian War of 1754 and the American Revolution War 1775, because of the movies and pictures, I thought of the British Army wearing red coats but this was not the case here. Each man provided his own uniform and there was no uniformity. To disguise the two armies the British of King William wore some green in their hat and the army of King James wore a white flower or something white in their hat. The Jacobites were defeated and King James fled to France. Our next stop was Tims where we saw the castle first built by Hugh de Lacy in 1172. All the castles we have visited were impressive. We parked down the street from the castle in front of the Stock House Restaurant. When we got back to the car we needed to eat because there would no food or restaurants where we are spending the night. 'We met were the first customers for dinner and got to know Mick Hughes the owner of Stock House Restaurant. He organized groups that take jeeps, ambulances, fire engines, etc. to support the Ukraine people. They take them on a ferry across to France and then drive them to the Ukraine. It takes less than a week and they fly back home. I enjoyed meeting and talking with him. When we left Trim we drove to Clonmacnoise Bed and Breakfast. It was nice and clean and the owner Joe was very friendly and wanted to please. He had us park on the lawn; we unpacked, we had prayer, and Debbie went to bed. I stayed up working on writing and putting pictures we had taken into my daily journal. I got to bed a little after midnight. I talked to Beth and the children. JC is taking them and while they are gone she is going to Rio de Janeiro in Brazil with friends for a few days.