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First, to start the day with a good breakfast at the Ferry House B&B.......



In Inistioge a bit of hazardous house painting, that's the main road and much bigger lorries weave their way through the little village. We were later helping the owner decide on trim colours.....



The bridge at Inistioge, narrow roads but substantial (narrow) bridges everywhere.......



In a field the Grennan Castle ruin, buckets of history involved, learning slowly the early Irish story.......



Jerpoint Abbey ruin, magnificent and very large, impossible to show the whole thing in one shot unless you had a helicopter, here's just a small impression........



At the pottery, first doing final shaping to some semi dried bowls......



And further on, applying patterns to lids in this case.....



Kilkenny Castle, a wacky distorted fisheye shot to try and fit it all in, the tower  is truly quite straight and vertical......



Some shop fronts on the main street in Kilkenny......



Inside St Canice Cathedral, very old, very magnificent, and evidently a thriving congregation.....



A small wooden carving attached to the choir stalls......



Most of the driving has been in narrow hedge lined roads, but very occasionally there's a view, and a place to stop (even rarer) just fields, but nice to look at after staring at the centre line for so long. Slighty scary driving here, never know what may be around the next corner, could be idiot driver, tourist bus, wide load tractor, or a road maintenance gang...... but the view was a nice change......



On the road, some towns are so narrow that they need traffic lights to control one way flow in turn, tourist buses, large semi-trailers, the lot need to negotiate these places.....



Finally today, a visit to the ruins of St Mullins Abbey, off the beaten track, peaceful with no tourists (apart from us) and a lovely sunny afternoon. Was even hot for a change sitting in the sun later to slurp an ice-cream. The ruins are very ruined and the monks tower long collapsed.......



Many graves, ranging from extremely old to modern day........