speeding our way through Ireland...

From Doolin we started driving south-east through the Burren area (lots of bleak rocky landscape, so wild and beautiful) and eventually made it to Cashel (somewhere in the middle of Ireland).

It was a nice little town, the main tourist attraction being the Rock of Cashel - an old monastery atop of a big fat rock.  It was quite like Edinburgh Castle in many ways, although the rock is not quite so big and the buildings at Cashel are ruins.  We took a very informative guided tour (though it was rather cold and a little rainy).  Then we went to the Cashel Folk Village/Museum, which is basically a little collection of old shop fronts around a courtyard, with lots of random old stuff - a look at Irish country life.  It was quite interesting and very quaint - the woman who runs/manages the places lives in a little cottage off the courtyard. 

From Cashel it was on to Kilkenny where we stopped only briefly, but it looked like another pleasant Irish town.