Ireland, Part 3

So, on day 3 we drove the southern coast from Kinsale, to Bantry. We stopped at a fort (James Fort) just across the bay from Charles Fort. And then started down the coast. We stopped at a Friary at Timoleague, which was just fantastic. The interesting thing is that among the graves inside the church, they noted what part of the building it used to be, ie chapel, sacristy...

Then at the other end of the religious spectrum, we drove to a stone circle. We were using this map that came with the car, and it had some extra sights on it that I hadn't heard about before. So we would just drive towards this star on the map, and hope we found it. More often than not, we would be driving (a little lost) and then see a sign. This is a view from where the circle sits, it was just so picturesque, and ireland-ish.

One really neat place we went to see was the lighthouse at Mizen Head. It's the southwestern-most point of Ireland. To get there we drove down the peninsula, and almost got run off the road a couple of times by people driving on the wrong side of the road. Once we got there we had to walk across this bridge to get from the mainland to the little piece of island that had the lighthouse on it. It was so windy up there, but the sun was shining, and the ocean was so blue. If it would have been warmer, I would have thought we were in the carribean.