Muckross House was built in the late 1700s to early 1800s. For six years it was renovated for a two night stay by Queen Victoria. She came staid at the house around the start of the American Civil War. It was a very nice house on a lake but we weren't allowed to take photos inside so a lot of the pictures I have are from the outside. Also, the cool thing is, is that the Muckross House is an exact replica of one of the manors in one of my stories - except smaller. This just excites me to absolutely no end!
After Muckross we went to Inch Beach and learned how to play Rugby!!!!!! It's so much better than American Football even though it's a lot rougher (I think). It was so much fun to play and I didn't even care when people tackled me. I usually do. But we played Rugby the whole time we were there and got covered in a lot of sand.
After that we went to Gallarus Oratory with its low-budget ten minutes video presentation which was the highlight of the whole trip to the Oratory. It's basically a church that is supposedly the oldest church in Ireland between 1200-900 years old and it hasn't been destroyed through all the years of warfare and it is still waterproof. It's built east to west so that the rising sun goes through the solitary window and the setting sun goes through the door. Other than that it wasn't an overly interesting place.
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