Sunday, May 31, 2015

Moving South and East then West

Yesterday we drove from Roscrea to Enniscorthy.  Enniscorthy is where my grandmother grew up. Kathie had found a census form from around 1904 that was for my grandmother's family and they lived at 10 St John's Street.  On our way to the campsite we drove the Enniscorthy and found the street and #10.  It is not far from the Enniscorthy Castle.  The worst traffic we have come across so far was here.  It wasn't that there was that much traffic, it was just the roads are really narrow and traffic can't move that fast.

Here is #10 St John Street.


The street was very narrow and getting the motorhome by all of the cars was tricky.  #10 is the first door on the right.


All of the signs here are in Gaelic and English.


The campground here are all fairly similar.  Grass with gravel pitches were the campers are parked.  If it is a trailer the tow vehicle parks beside the camper on the grass.  The trailers here remind me of the trailers in the 1960's.  The tow vehicles are cars and the trailers are usually about 16 feet long.  Even at that, trying to get down the access roads with someone coming the other way must be interesting.


The weather last night was very wet and windy.  The drive today was OK, mostly dry but a couple of heavy rain squalls and windy.

Today we drove across the south of Ireland to Blarney.  Tomorrow we will tour the castle and Tuesday we will move north to the Cliff of Moher.