Killarney

We left cork and headed to the blarney castle where the blarney stone is. I was happy just to look and not lie on my back and lean backwards over a big gap way up in the air and kiss a stone that hundreds of others have kissed. The castle was nice as well as the Druid gardens.
Then we headed toward Killarney and ended up on the wrong road but realized before too long. We got to kilarney around lunch time and discovered the self service salad bar in the department store and took our salads to eat on the grass next to Ross castle. Then went to muckross abbey which is an old ruin of a friary. Killarney is a nice town but way too much traffic for a little town. Our b&b called salmon leap is about 15 km out of town. Really nice rocky mountain views and very quiet.
The next day we drove the ring of Kerry. We took the skellig ring detour which was great because we found an old ruin of a castle to climb on. It was great because it was unattended and just standing in a cow paddock. We could easily have fallen off it and hurt ourselves but didn't. Then we found an old fort to climb on. That was fun too. Unfortunately the views weren't great because of the fog. But still a really nice drive. We stayed in the same b&b two nights just outside Killarney.