Philip and I slept late finding it easy to sleep in the quiet and quite dark castle. It is very old, some parts built in the 11th century, and has lots of characteristic scars and oddities, but the beds are comfortable and the plumbing works. We couldn't get the shower to turn on even after getting the very specific instructions from Karen on how to work the electric shower. Turns out we did not turn one button far enough. She showed me how to do it today. The ki...

After a nice breakfast in the Dunraven Arms Hotel, we started north to see the Cliffs of Moher before arriving at Kilcolgan Castle. The Cliffs are not exactly on the way between the other two, but they are not too far off course. We started on a fairly nice two-lane road, spent a few miles on a toll motorway, then the road quality went down progressively until the gps noted we were driving on an unnamed road and ready to turn onto another unnamed road. At least t...