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Ireland 2009

At the end of June 2009, Patrick Rowley and his wife Ann organized yet another "pub crawl" of the southwest coast of Ireland ending with two days in Dublin. We left Dulles at 7:30 pm and arrived in Dublin at 7:30 am which was actually 7 hours later plus the 5 hour time difference. We immediately flew to Shannon arriving at 10:30 am and boarded othe tour bus with our driver/guide Martin Raft who was called Matthew. We didn't go to our hotel but rather headed immediately for the Cliffs of Moher where our adventure began...
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This is Patrick's neice who works the bar.
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This is Patrick's neice who works the bar.

SwinfordCounty MayoIreland

  • Detail from the Coffin Ship monument.
  • Detail from the Coffin Ship monument.
  • Detail from the Coffin Ship monument.
  • Detail from the Coffin Ship monument.
  • This abbey in ruin was just down the way from Croag Patrick and the Coffin Ship monument. The horses in the distance were grooming each other.
  • Just another shot to show this behavior of horses grooming horses.
  • Detail from the Abbey wall.
  • That evening a group of us traveled to Swinford to the pub owned by Patrick's cousin, Seamus. This was the first pub where we experienced the shamrock pour as the finishing touch on a pint of Guinness.
  • Out back on the patio we met Seamus himself.
  • This is Patrick's neice who works the bar.
  • This is another niece of Patrick who works the bar.
  • Seamus's bar naturally had the requisite window box of flowers on the patio.
  • This facade was viewed from the patio at Seamus's pub at sunset. Laura asked me to get a shot of it.
  • Kathleen Plyler
  • Seamus and Serena Smith
  • Patrick himself practicing the fine art of "talking to the hand."
  • Patrick Rowley
  • Anne Rowley
  • Cindy Warfield
  • Doug Warfield
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