City of Dublin: August 31 and September 9, 2004. (Back to Top)

Some shots of the city.

Christ Church Cathedral, founded on this site in 1038 as a simple wooden building and rebuilt in 1240 to this beautiful Norman and Gothic structure.

Visiting the Old Jameson Distillary (the current one is in Cork).

Co. Wicklow : September 1. (Back to Top)

The "Garden of Ireland". Before establishing the monastery at Glendalough, St. Kevin is said to have lived at the edge of the lake as a hermit eating roots and berries, and being an animal lover would wear only the skins of animals that had died of old age. The last two pictures are of villages in the county.

Glendalough ("Glen of two lakes") is an old monastic site founded by St. Kevin in 498 A.D. The tall, round tower was built in about 905. Supposedly, the people that lived here are the only population ever known to have lived to be, on average, greater than 100 years old. St. Kevin died in 617 at the age of 120. In 1214, the monastery was destroyed by Norman invaders and Glendalough was gradually deserted.