After spending a quiet Friday in Adare, we headed to the Cliffs of Moher with an intermediate stop at the Bunratty Castle on the way and a late lunch stop in Ennistimon on our return.  It was the nicest weather day of our time in Ireland with predominately blue sky for much of the day and no precipitation.

Bunratty Castle, dating to the early 15th century, was worth the visit as it does not occupy much horizontal space but has a lot going on vertically with many small rooms and the classic very narrow enclosed spiral staircases.  Unfortunately (at least for the way we like to visit sites) it is also attached to the Bunratty Folk Park so it has an admission fee that is about two and a half times the normal fee and, worst of all, no senior rate at age 60 or 62 which all the publicly owned sites do have.

The Cliffs of Moher speaks for itself.  Dating to about the early 3,200,000th century BCE, it is Ireland's most visited natural attraction with a magical vista that is viewed from 700 feet above the ocean.  Of course it is very windy as you can see in the pictures (I promised Konnie that flying hair disclaimer) but the views are spectacular.  We are happy that we took the trip to that part of the country because it is the only area so far where we saw a lot of the geography book Irish landscape that we were expecting to see more often than we have.

Off to Dublin on Sunday for our last stop as we wrap up twenty three days in the British Isles on Thursday.