We are staying at the Grove Lodge where Sue's family stayed in 2004. This B&B, located in Killorglin, County Kerry, is a lovely inn with beautiful flowers and bird feeders.
One of our first stops on the Ring of Kerry, a road that circles the peninsula, was the Staigue Fort. This rock circle, about 20' high and 8' thick, was built about 2000 years ago. It protected families and livestock from attackers.
Beautiful vistas of farms and the Atlantic can be seen along the way.
We stopped at a slate quarry on Valencia Island where slate has been mined since the early 1800's. Slate for the roof of the Paris Opera House came from here. A Madonna sits in a grotto high above the mine opening. The quarry operated even during the famine years.
The roads are narrow . . . sometimes only big enough for one car. When sheep decide to share the road you have to be doubly careful.
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