tamela_j | The Ruins of Ireland

Yeah, so thankfully

ajavajunky and I learned pretty early on that we both like to visit and take pictures of cemeteries and abandoned and falling apart buildings.

Ireland was RIPE with both of these--

CEMETERIES:

Creepy story about that last picture. I can't remember the name because I have packed up my notes and mementos of the trip for the upcoming move, but it was outside of Shanagolden where we were staying a night. It was a small cemetery down a dirt road that we, for some reason, just decided to go check out on our way back from dinner. By the time we got to it it was barely a road and the grass was up to our hips when we got out. We split up to take pictures--it seemed a lot darker then this picture would suggest, but I think it was dusk perhaps. Anyway, we weren't there very long before I started getting a sharp piercing stinging on both thighs and every step I took just intensified it. About this time,

ajavajunky who had wondered farther to the tombstones started getting a hostile type feeling and I was screaming with pain.

Totally haunted right?

We looked up the cemetery when we got internet access, and this is the part I can't remember and will update when I find the notes...but apparently the guy whose cemetery we were in was some sort of traitor? Apparently a super angry traitor...

And here's a random Abbey! :)

Our third morning in Ireland, while sitting around the B&B table with other travelers, one of the guys explained to us about Famine houses. The abandoned stone cottages with missing roofs, windows or with trees and whatnot growing through them belonged to people during the famine and had been sitting there empty since then.

For some reason we just fell in love with the name Famine House--not the idea of famine mind you--but that old run down houses had names. We started calling everything Famine this or Famine that...so like a gas station that was burned out and closed was a Famine Gas Station, there were Famine Mansions, Famine Condos and this first one, I believe, was when I coined the term, FAMINETASTIC! What? We were getting silly in that car for hours!

These were so famine-awesome that they were called, Famine Leper Castles! Srsly, doesn't that first one look less like a castle and more like a building you'd see in a Dr. Seuss book? We drove around FOREVER trying to get closer to it...turns out it's been abandoned so long there isn't even a road that goes to it anymore.

So, that was Ireland. Next we'll move on to Scotland and pictures with actual PEOPLE in them! w00t!

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cartoon-red.livejournal.com

YAY SCOTLAND THE BEST PLACE IN ALL THE WORLD!

But yes, from these photos you would think that Ireland is entirely uninhabited!

PS. Abby is a name. Abbey is a building :)

tamela-j.livejournal.com

THE PARTS WE SAW DEFINITELY SUPPORT THIS THEORY! :))

Right? We did see SOME people...but mostly we were looking for pretty things and the one time we were surrounded by people (Giants Causeway) the niece was all, "Damn people, ruining my pictures!) :))

hahaha, FIXED!