DATE: Thursday 31 August, 1995
PLACE: Tully Cross, Renvyle Peninsular
WEATHER: Cloudy
REMARKS: Michael and Freda start their return trip today
so we farewell them before setting of for Louisburgh and the
Grace O'Malley Centre.
This has a very interesting video documentary (although
it is often talking heads and not a great deal of action for
the kids) and a very informative static display.
We travel the coastal, Famine Road, and note a memorial
to the Doolough Tragedy. It seems that rumour spread, during
the famine, of the arrival of a boatload of food. Naturally
the starving locals were attracted, but the boat never eventuated,
and all had to walk back, many dying in the process.
We stop once more at the Abbey so that the kids can put
out the fire of Mary of Maam' s money is burning in their
collective pockets.
Next stop: find Omey Island, where a King (or was it a Davis)
was in the Coast Guard.
Narrow country lanes lead us to a tidal neck where access
is possible when the tide is out. The cemetery has numerous
headstones of the right names but no obvious ones of the right
period. Clearly more research by letter is needed.
However, we have now seen all the King sites in the area
and have photos (I hope) of buildings, graves, and the stark,
unforgiving landscape.
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