We started off Wednesday morning with a quick visit back to the cliffs of Moher before a liesuraly drive to to Ashford Castle and the Village of Cong.
It was a little clearer this morning so we spent a little time on the cliffs before heading on:
I got a little too close to the edge and had to climb back up:
We then headed off and on the way to Cong stopped at a couple neat stops. The first was a area called the Burren; an area of about 6 square miles of limestone at the surface with some very interesting formations. There is a National Park and an anchient megalithic portal tomb at Poulnabrone. The tomb is dated around the fourth century B.C. They placed the bones of people under the structure and 35 remains have been discovered there.
From there, we headed to the village of Cong where they filmed a John Wayne film in 1951 and much of the town centers on this. It is a story of an Irishman that left to seek his fortune in America and returns after becoming a successful prize fighter.
It was a pretty little town with a neat old abbey where we had a picnic by the Cong River.
We ended the day at Ashford Castle:
I will do a separate post on the castle; it was pretty neat.
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