Well I was there this time last year. Stayed at Avondale bed and breakfast..great food..wonderful hosts...066 9151606 collinskirrary@eircom.net

Right around the corner from Garvey's grocery store and near to Garvey
's sporting goods store, which are must sees of course. You can sit on the Garvey bench in the Garvey store. Now to get to the home of my ancestors you must go to Dunquin near the Gallyrus? Well, it is called Maum on orhrig or something like that. If you take an archeology tour with the b&b host he will show you where it is. Not to be missed. Now, some ancestors are buried in St. Catherine's in Dunquin and I am pretty sure I am descended from the wild men of Dunquin. I was not able to get there to that graveyard, although I did get to one in Ballyferriter but if you came across any Garvey or Fitzgerald headstones and could photograph them that would be great. Especially one called Mary (Garvey) Fitzgerald..probably died 1870 or so? Not sure. She died of doing a novena in the rain. There are some Fitzgeralds in Ballyferriter that I am related to. It is eeirie going to Ventry Estate and seeing where your ancestors could have been "owned" almost although I am not at all sure they were...

I was told O'Flaherty's was the best place ofr music and while it was good, it was way too heavy on the flute for me. I didn't really hear any absolutely awesome music when I was there, but really did not have time. Did not make it to the Blasket Islands due to weather but it sounds great. Very beautiful land over there. Murphy's right on the bay had very good food and took VIsa which not all of them did. Nice little music store run by another O'Flaherty right across from the Catholic cathedral there. mg