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40 days and 1,400 miles and I'm done, back in Blackpool now. In the 'States my mileage would be about exactly twice that but detail and history lay much thicker on the ground over here.

OK, random Irish pics.



Damn, I'm gonna miss the National Ploughing Championships...
http://www.npa.ie/



Athenry east of Galway, founded 1235 by the Norman invaders, they hadda put a wall up to keep the Irish out, who were decidedly uncouth at that time.





..and the ruined priory in Athenry. Ireland is full of church ruins. They were Catholic forever, then the 16th Century English under Elizabeth I built a bunch of Anglican/Church of England (later Church of Ireland) churches, then Cromwell's army tore down all of those a Century later.