Once we arrived on Inishmore we went on a bus tour. For the first time we had to split up into two groups as we had to leave our normal bus, and our regular and lovely bus driver Joe, back on the main Island of Ireland. Oddly enough two people were on our tour who were not members of our group. Perhaps this is why our professor had to sit on a little stool on our bus as opposed to having an actual seat.
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| Some of the Walls on Inishmore |
There were a lot of stone walls all over the island. We were told by our guide that there are actually about 10,000 miles of stone walls on the island and while it may look like they separate different people's land, they often don't. A lot of the people on the island grow their own food. Inishmore has a population of about 800. There are two primary schools, one secondary school, and a college. There is only one police officer (as our guide said, if you did something everyone would already know), one doctor, one nurse, and one priest.
There are several cashels on the island, that and Dun Aonghasa (which will be my next post) indicate that it was a very strategically important site in prehistoric times.
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| Two Seals (or Selkies?) |
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| A Cottage with a Thatched Roof |
Whenever we saw the shores of Inishmore or any of the thatched houses it made me really want to see The Secret of Roan Inish again. Especially when we stopped to see the seal colony. There are apparently normally 25 seals, but we only saw two. I highly recommend the movie by the way and I might have found it on youtube.
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| The American Bar |
Our final stop on the island was The American Bar for dinner at 3:30pm. No I'm not kidding. But it gave us a chance to make a quick run to buy all manner of woolen goods before hopping on the 5:00pm ferry before our four hour bus ride back to Cork.
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