1 Jul 2024, Monday

. 1 Jul 2024, Monday

Prioritized Daily Task 

Andrew Hobbs' 7th Birthday

Ring of Kerry -135 miles (about 8 hours) and Dingle Peninsula-30 miles

Stay at Killarney Heights Hotel

Debbie was up early, I got up at about 7 am.  We had prayer and went downstairs to a nice breakfast provided by the hotel.   We left the hotel at about 9 am and drove to the Mockross Home and Killarney National Park.  We saw the home that was built between 1839 and 1843 for Henry Arthur Herbert.  Colonel Henry Arthur Herbert PC (1815 – 26 February 1866), was an Anglo-Irish politician in the Parliament of the United Kingdom.  In 1861 Queen Victoria and her husband, Prince Albert stayed at the Mockross House. The Muckross House (Irish: Teach Mhucrois) is located on the small Muckross Peninsula between Muckross Lake and Lough Leane, two of the lakes of Killarney.  Debbie and I took pictures.  One was of me beside an old large Monterey Pine, similar to the Ponderosa pines.  We did not see any tour buses, only cars and vans, in the National Park until we picked up the Ring of Kerry at Sneem.  Before Sneem, we stopped at the Tore Waterfall and took pictures.  The road was winding and narrow with lots of traffic.  Today we had to pull over to the side of the road if possible or back up, sometimes as many as 3 cars trying to back up so traffic could pass.  We took a sideroad to the old round Staigue Fort.  Staigue or Staig is a ruined stone ringfort eighteen kilometers west of Sneem, on the Iveragh peninsula in County Kerry, Ireland. The fort is thought to have been built during the late Iron Age, probably somewhere between 300 and 400 AD, as a defensive stronghold for a local lord or king.  The round fort is approx. 5 meters high and 4 meters thick made of rocks with no mortar.  After leaving we drove on stopping along the way to take pictures.  We had lunch at O'Carroll's Cove.  We stopped on the coast and took pictures of the Shelling Rocks just off the coast and learned about beehive huts monks from the 6th to the 13th century built and lived.  There were bogs on the mountain along the coast that will become peat in time.  The low tire indicator came on again.  When we got back to the Heights Hotel in Killarney, I had the receptionist help me call Enterprise Car Rental emergency assistance.  I told them the low tire indicator came on again today.   They said they would try and get us another car similar to the one we have now.  Debbie was on the phone with Karlene and then with the group closing on their mother's home with Reed.   We went to dinner and Jody called and. talked with Debbie about Shelby and an old boyfriend, Nick.  Debbie and I had prayer before going to bed.

                                                           The Heights Hotel Killarney

Debbie at Muckross House

Monterey Pine

                             Grandpa McAlpiin (me) beside the Monterey Pine

                                                                                    
                                                                                             Debbie at Tore Waterfall

Picture of moss and ferns below Tore Waterfall

                                                                        Staigue Fort
 
                                             View of inside Staigue Fort before early Christians 

                                      Rock wall of Staigue Fort was built with rocks and no mortar
                                                           
         hours of driving today on roads like this with room for one car (if cars meet one has to back up)
                                                           Bog on a hill overlooking the bay
                              
                                                              The Shellihg Rocks
                                                              The Shelling Rocks
Monks built and lived on top of the highest peak in beehive huts made of rocks by monks from the 6th to the 13th century
Lunch at a restaurant in O'Carroll's Cove

                                                                  pictures of farms in Kerry



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