Ireland rocks again

WE SET OFF from our Raddison Blu hotel to the Céide Fields, northwest of Ballycastle. The world's most extensive neolithic monument is still mainly hidden under layers of bog.




This large tree, recovered from the bog, is in the Interpretive Centre.




A local man in the 1930s, while digging peat in the bog, found piled up stones buried beneath the bog. His son, who became an archaeologist, led extensive exploration of the area in the 1960s and realised that these stones were the remains of stones walls that had been covered by the ever-rising bog.




Because they couldn't dig all the fences etc up and the geophys didn't work, Tony, they opted for the simpler method of just probing the bog and mapping the bottom, marking the landscape with bamboo sticks.



The rest of the day was taken up by driving through amazing scenery. Esturies, mountains, bogs where peat was drying, small islands in rivers or lakes.













We ended up in a 'boutique' hotel in Galway in a tiny room -- smaller than Anna's filled with a double bed and a tiny en suite.




We seem to be in the St Kilda type of area of Galway. A fun park, Casinos, and loud people outside in the early morn...






- Posted before breakfast