Nostalgic: For Ireland Pt 3

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Nostalgic: For Ireland Pt 3

On Wednesday we headed north from Westport to Glencastle (this is my Ancestral Home)...

The Road to Glencastle

Oh yes, they are EVERYWHERE

Glencastle, County Mayo

Glencastle Cemetery on a Hill

Glencastle Old Cemetery

The Full Shilling Pub (Free Lunch Here)!

Belmullet, County Mayo

Heading to Geesala

Munnelly's Store & House (they're Pub is across the street)

2 comments:

JennaApril 19, 2010 at 10:36 PM
I'm very impressed you know the names of what you are photographing! I have hundreds of photos and no clue what they are of!
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CarolineMarch 15, 2012 at 8:33 PM
Hi I'm intrigued that Glencastle is your ancestral home. I live there so who were your ancestors and where did they emigrate to? I love your pictures, recognise them all. Did you get to meet any of your relations when you got here.
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Dear Ancestor

Your tombstone stands among the rest;
Neglected and alone.
The name and date are chiseled out
On polished, marble stone.
It reaches out to all who care
It is too late to mourn.
You did not know that I exist
You died and I was born.
Yet each of us are cells of you
In flesh, in blood, in bone.
Our blood contracts and beats a pulse
Entirely not our own.
Dear Ancestor, the place you filled
One hundred years ago
Spreads out among the ones you left
Who would have loved you so.
I wonder how you lived and loved,
I wonder if you knew
That someday I would find this spot,
And come to visit you.
~ Author Unknown ~