one thing I noticed about rural ireland, the middle part that looks very fertile to me..was the seeming lack of farming or animal growing activity..what is going on? There were a lot of sheep, especially in Dingle area..lots of sheep...and they do eat them more than we do in the US of course...but I saw mile after mile of what looked like just grass..no animals, no visible crops, no orchards...have the absentee landlords come back from Holland etc.? What is going on...mg