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Day 3: Powerscourt, Glendalough, Kilkenny

September 10, 2007

Time to leave Dublin; Matt with our Fiat Panda

First we drove south to Powerscourt Gardens

It's an old mansion with lots of pretty gardens

Erin and the mansion

Yay! We made it out of Dublin with no accidents and it's not raining!

These awesome flowers are everywhere

Better pictures of Powerscourt mansion

There's a random tower on the grounds

And a Japanese garden with waterfalls

Lake and the fountain

Lots of flowers...

...hydrangeas...

...like a gazillion different types of flowers

Next we drove to Glendalough

Glendalough is a ruined monastery in between 2 beautiful lakes

Matt walking around the monastery graveyard

More gravestones and a round tower

Matt in one of the old buildings

Erin in the old church

High crosses

We walked down to the lakes; they had lots of hiking trails

It's so calm and peaceful here

I can see why the monks wanted to live here

We hiked to a waterfall at Glendalough

Self portrait with said waterfall

And an up-close shot

Matt at the ruins of St. Kevin's cell overlooking the lake

An old church on site (and I mean old as in the 6th century)

This won't be the last time you see Erin posing in ruins

Oooh, the sun came out

We made it to our first B&B; Alcantra B&B in Kilkenny

This one's for Delaney. Note the flags in Kilkenny soccer team colors

The lovely town of Kilkenny

Ireland is obsessed with flowers

The Black Abbey, founded in 1225

Kilkenny has an extremely high church-to-person ratio

You can never have too many churches! (Or can you?)

River Nore in Kilkenny

Kilkenny Castle at sunset

The BEST trad music night of our whole trip!

Erin enjoying a Smithwick's; brewed right here in Kilkenny

Lots of random locals got up to sing solos; so fun