Ring of Kerry

Muckross House

Muckross House is a beautiful victorian home in Killarney National Park. Located overlooking Muckross Lake. The grounds are beautifully maintained with a wonderful garden close to the house.

This house is the best preserved victorian house that we have visited. The draperies in the house are the original.

The house was used as a hunting lodge and therefore the grounds were protected from being logged. Some of the trees are very large.

Tree in the park

While at Muckross House you can also visit the Muckross Farm. This area shows farm life in a small, medium and large farm. Irish soda bread is baked over a fire either is a pot using peat or on a griddle over an open fire. In one area you can see the Irish Wolfhounds.

Care for a ride

Large Farm House

Irish Wolfhound

While driving the Ring of Kerry there are wonderful views.

The weather was cloudy and misty so it was difficult to see the Skelket Island where the monks lived and the site of The Last Jedi filming took place. We did see the island better from he Dingle Penisula.  Ireland has had several movies and shows filmed in various locations throughout the island and there are frequent references to the sites.

One of the many lakes in the area.

On Valentia Island, we stopped at the site where the transatlantic cable came to from Newfoundland in 1858 on August 5th.  The cable connected Canada to Europe.

Telegraph Field

Monument identifying where the cable came ashore from Canada.

There are also some fossilized prints from the tetrapod trackway which is believed to be created by one of the first animals that walked on land. The tracks are believed to be 385 million years old.

Footprints