Ireland - Day 11

Coming back around to the west coast of Ireland we stayed in what is known as the most popular tourist area - the town of Killarney and County Kerry. There's another national park and we got to pass through some of it on a sunny morning in horse-drawn carts called Jaunting Cars. Martin and Paddy (driver and horse) were lovely.

Then we spent the rest of the day on the bus on the Ring of Kerry, which is a drive around the Iveragh Peninsula. Our fabulous guide Ken informed me that my name has Gaelic roots which I didn't know about. Spellings and tradition seems to vary somewhat but 'Sarah' translates as 'Sadhbh', pronounced Sive (Sayv). We passed through a town called Cahirsiveen (also spelled Cahirciveen) which means "Little Sadhbh's stone ringfort". How cool is that! It also has the only Catholic church in Ireland named after a layperson - Daniel O'Connell - because he was born there. Also cool.