BUNRATTY CASTLE - EASTER SUNDAY

We walked up to the church on the hill for 10am mass celebrated by a priest who raced through parts of mass but yet seemed to forget others. We made brunch and then headed off to Bunratty Castle and Folk park, forced to abandon our plans to peruse the Aran Islands due to the weather.

Bunratty Castle was constructed in the 16^th C. and served as home to the MacNamara’s and O’Brien’s. It was abandoned in the 19^th C. and then restored in the 1950s. The folk park has various village houses and environs that depict village life through the late 1800s—everything from one-room thatched roof homes to an estate house, chickens, pigs and Irish Wolfhounds. We wrapped up the day with a warm meal at Brogan’s in Ennis that was reminiscent of a Thanksgiving meal--so much food crammed on one plate! Awesome!

Irish Wolfhound