This is Lough Inagh with Bencorr in the background.
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Lots of sheep along this road.
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Kylemore Abbey. Originally a mansion/castle, sold to the church in the late 19th century (I think). If you look carefully, you can see a white dot on the mountain above and left of the abbey - that's a statue of Jesus.
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The mountains around the abbey.
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Another view of the abbey. In addition to being an abbey, it is also a boarding school for girls.
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The chapel near the abbey.
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The window in the chapel.
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The chapel has columns made of marble from all over Ireland. Here you can see the color differences between the types of marble.
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Sue and I in the entrance to the walled garden of the abbey. The garden was abandoned for a few decades, and is now being restored.
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Lots of flowers planted in geometric shapes.
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The garden is quite large.
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Another view of the garden.
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There were some ponies penned up in the national park.
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He's a very photogenic pony.
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A view of the park, with a town (maybe Letterfrack?) in the background.
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Me with a purple flower (called ling) behind me. Some parts of the park had lots of ling growing in it, making it all purplish green.
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More ling.
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There were a few walking trails in the park. This is the "bog walk". Strange name, because we didn't see any bog along it...maybe we just don't know how to recognize a bog when we see one?
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Driving back from the park I ran over a pothole, or a rock, or maybe a castle and got a flat tire. Oops. Luckily the spare was good and the tire could be repaired - the tire shop said that they get "American punctures" all the time because of the incredibly narrow Irish roads.
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