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September 27, 2022
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Day 1
Tuesday, September 27, 2022 at 9:17 PM
☁️ 11 °C
Altitude: 17 m
Ireland Galway Ceannt 53.274314, -9.0468253°16’28” N 9°2’49” W
Intro to Galway
September 27, 2022 in Ireland ⋅ ☁️ 11 °C
Lori Rossitpictures!!
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Day 3
Thursday, September 29, 2022 at 1:41 PM
⛅ 15 °C
Altitude: 13 m
Ireland Galway Ceannt 53.27353, -9.04680453°16’25” N 9°2’48” W
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Hiked in Connemara
September 29, 2022 in Ireland ⋅ ⛅ 15 °C
Lori Rossit WOW what a view!
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Traveleromg beautiful!
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Day 3
Thursday, September 29, 2022 at 1:42 PM
⛅ 15 °C
Altitude: 13 m
Ireland Galway Ceannt 53.27353, -9.04680453°16’25” N 9°2’48” W
Walked along "the moon"
September 29, 2022 in Ireland ⋅ ⛅ 15 °C
Lori Rossitchilly there too
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Travelerwasn't so much cold as she caught me in mid shrug lol its around 10-15C here
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Lori Rossitno rain yet??
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Day 3
Thursday, September 29, 2022 at 1:45 PM
⛅ 15 °C
Altitude: 13 m
Ireland Galway Ceannt 53.27353, -9.04680453°16’25” N 9°2’48” W
This random cute island
September 29, 2022 in Ireland ⋅ ⛅ 15 °C
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Day 3
Thursday, September 29, 2022 at 2:35 PM
⛅ 15 °C
Altitude: 21 m
Ireland Oranmore Bay 53.273948, -8.95969253°16’26” N 8°57’35” W
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Connemara National Park - Diamond Hill
September 29, 2022 in Ireland ⋅ ⛅ 15 °C
Lori Rossit I want to go there!!!!!!!!
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Day 4
Friday, September 30, 2022 at 1:54 PM
☁️ 17 °C
Altitude: 20 m
Ireland Ballsbridge 53.332088, -6.24139853°19’56” N 6°14’29” W
Upper Lake of Glendalough
September 30, 2022 in Ireland ⋅ ☁️ 17 °C
So tempting to jump in, but windy and cold and also ... We'd have been naked. Not against skinny dipping but the whole beach wasn't about to consent
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Day 4
Friday, September 30, 2022 at 1:54 PM
☁️ 17 °C
Altitude: 20 m
Ireland Ballsbridge 53.332084, -6.24139653°19’56” N 6°14’29” W
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Wicklow National Park
September 30, 2022 in Ireland ⋅ ☁️ 17 °C
Lori Rossit every picture is stunning
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Travelerit's because Ireland is stunning, do recommend
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Day 4
Friday, September 30, 2022 at 1:56 PM
☁️ 17 °C
Altitude: 20 m
Ireland Ballsbridge 53.332084, -6.24139853°19’56” N 6°14’29” W
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Kilkenny
September 30, 2022 in Ireland ⋅ ☁️ 17 °C
#mood
Finally got the classic wind and rain we'd expected the whole time
Super cool tavern!! Used to be owned by Alice Kyteler - accused and convicted of witchcraft, but punishment never doled out because she magically disappeared in 1324 - her maid servant was killed in her placeRead more
Lori Rossit Yay a pub!!!!!!!!!!
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Traveleromg!!!! yes Queen! history lesson with pics. Thank you. so awesome.
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TravelerI'm not as good as you at remembering all the history but I really liked this one! I want to go to Salem and learn about the witch trials
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Travelerim game! road trip from Ontario lol
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Day 5
Saturday, October 1, 2022 at 3:23 PM
⛅ 17 °C
Altitude: 21 m
Ireland Ballybough 53.357728, -6.25963753°21’28” N 6°15’35” W
Aimless wandering
October 1, 2022 in Ireland ⋅ ⛅ 17 °C
Emmi's last day and basically mine since I head home tomorrow morning. We took a selfie with Oscar Wilde, tried to match his facial expression, and Emmi is also a plant nut
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Day 5
Saturday, October 1, 2022 at 3:28 PM
⛅ 17 °C
Altitude: 21 m
Ireland Ballybough 53.357748, -6.25966353°21’28” N 6°15’35” W
Ghost Walk
October 1, 2022 in Ireland ⋅ ⛅ 17 °C
Lexy, you would have keeled over in total bliss. My ghost tour guide was such a history buff and I hardly remember anything. I should have brought a notebook!!!
Photo: one of many super cute streets on my way to the ghost tourRead more
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Day 5
Saturday, October 1, 2022 at 3:34 PM
⛅ 16 °C
Altitude: 21 m
Ireland Ballybough 53.357684, -6.25967353°21’28” N 6°15’35” W
Ghost walk 2.0
October 1, 2022 in Ireland ⋅ ⛅ 16 °C
This was at the Dublin Castle. Lady Justice is represented here since this was the court house/ politicians except Ireland was rarely just. She's facing towards the castle and away from the public, she's not blind or blind folded (so she can be biased) and her sword is upwards in an aggressive stance (more inductors of punishment than discipline or defense).

Red Hughe O'Donoghue was a man of high ranking if North Ireland. He was kidnapped and imprisoned for 6 years in the lat 1500s. Escape, raised an army, befriended Spain, began the 9 years war, but then Spain mixed up their directions and didn't show up on time, so North Ireland lost the war. O'Donoghue fled Ireland to Spain. A guy offered him a free drink in Spain - turned out he was an agent of the crown and it was poisoned! Boom, dead.

Also talked about a Catholic priest who was imprisoned because being catholic was illegal for a while. He was beaten for a week, his legs were boiled off over the course of 3 days, and beaten for another 2 weeks. He still didn't relinquish his religion, and was hanged. (How he survived the first bit idk 😱😱)

So much torture. Pitch capping = Irish equivalent of scalping.Read more
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Day 5
Saturday, October 1, 2022 at 3:41 PM
⛅ 16 °C
Altitude: 21 m
Ireland Ballybough 53.35772, -6.25968353°21’28” N 6°15’35” W
Ghost walk 3.0 and a cow
October 1, 2022 in Ireland ⋅ ⛅ 16 °C
This cathedral was built by vikings, but then being a viking was illegal and it became a Protestant (Church of Ireland) Church. A bunch of stuff, but the fun story I remember naturally involves witchcraft.

The Church needed fundraising so what do you do to raise money in Ireland? Open a bar. So the Church opened two bars in the basement. What does a bar give you? Drunk men. What do drunk men like? Sex. Darkey Kelly being an enterprising young lady, opened a very successful brothel just down the street, except brothels were illegal. How do you get the law to put up a blind eye? You sleep with law enforcement. Darkey started seeing the sheriff, Luttrell. However, what happens when you have whilst sex in the 1700s with no contraception? Darkey got pregnant and Luttrell was married, so to get rid of her, he accused her of witch craft. Boom, she's a witch, and either burned at the stake or drowned. But then! When they checked the brothel, they found the bodies of 5 men in the basement so Darkey is reasonably alleged to also be a serial killer, and perhaps Ireland's first female serial killer!!

Also, a cow.Read more
Traveleroh, and Lexy!! when they built city council, they found the largest viking settlement (over 70% intact) outside of Scandanavia, and one of the largest cultural finds of the modern day, and know what city council did? brought in bulldozers, and kept on building. 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️
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Day 5
Saturday, October 1, 2022 at 3:46 PM
⛅ 16 °C
Altitude: 21 m
Ireland Ballybough 53.357735, -6.25968753°21’28” N 6°15’35” W
Ghost walk 3.0
October 1, 2022 in Ireland ⋅ ⛅ 16 °C
I didn't take pics but we also learned about Billy in the Bowl (1700s, born with no legs. A black Smith makes him a bowl with wheels so he can get around.) Billy is a beggar but he hates the world for it so he begins to strangle women. He pretends to be stuck in a hedge, and when a woman tries to help him, he grabs her and strangles her to death (his arms are hella strong from wheeling around). He is such a problem (although not a suspect, because how would a cripple beggar be able to do anything) that the police actually patrol the poor neighborhood where the spree is happening (say what?? Enough poor women died in the POOR area of town, that law enforcement did things?). Eventually Billy gets cocky, and tries to take on two women simultaneously. They get away, he's caught, convicted, and locked up as a freak show so the government can charge people to see him and other freaks.Read more
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Trip end
October 2, 2022