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Next to the Lake (Lough)

Dinner at Ashley Park House

Tim in the Gardens at Ashley Park House
(Photo credits to Ruth)

We took off in a rental car from Cork, (Tim doing all the driving, thank goodness) down narrow lanes with hedges,  and drove towards Nenagh, in Tipperary. Ruth had found an 18th-century country manor on a lake, with fantastic food. We enjoyed a four course dinner that evening, and walks in the evening and the morning around the estate. Check out the website of Ashley Park House, and you can see the Green Room, where David and I stayed.   
The next day we drove to Carlingford on the Cooley Peninsula, where we enjoyed another fantastic dinner at the Ghan House. We also enjoyed some whiskey from the Cooley distillery nearby in a local pub, and let the locals know that we were Cooleys. We visited Dan's Stonewall Cafe, where the proprietor regaled us with the legend of the Cooley bull. He is the man from Tim's last visit that sold him the Cooley Kickhams athletic jerseys.

The view from Cooley mountain

The next day we climbed up into the Cooley mountains. It was a really beautiful seaside town, nestled within old town walls, with a castle ruin to climb around and a long quay along the Belfast Harbor .

At Dan's Stonewall Cafe, with Dan