Once upon a time in Blarney there were great woolen mills known as Mahony’s Mills which manufactured woolen products and employed hundreds of locals in all manner of roles. Nearly 150 years from the day it was built the mills ground to a halt due to declining demand and production. 500 people lost their jobs […]
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In every town we visited or passed through we found a grotto with an effigy of the biblical Mary. While traveling through the town of Charlieville I noticed something different, this single statue in the courtyard of an old church. In it I saw a small child playing and leaning over the edge of a […]
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Down the tower steps, on to the plush red carpeted guests landing and finally those grand banistered red stairs down to a kingly Irish breakfast. We have brought back many wonderful memories of Dromoland Castle but by the way this image brought those memories flooding in I’d say red carpeted stairs will will always be […]
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If this were a Grimm fairy tale I could imagine myself calling up to my beloved Rapunzel to let down her golden hair so that we might be together. But this is not a story book tale. It is my gorgeous bride standing watch for my return from the the old tower of Dromoland Castle. […]
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Walking through the main doors of the Great Northern Hotel is like stepping back in time. 62 years ago Jennifer’s newly wed parents Gerard and Nuala stepped through these very same doors on their honeymoon. I wonder if they thought the very same thing conjuring up images of the late 1900s. Years even before then […]
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