Cahir and Cashel

We started off heading for Cashel, but Ella fell asleep right before we got there so we opted to drive on a little farther to Cahir to see the castle. This castle was much more intact than the Adare castle we'd seen previously. This was a very hands on kind of place with stairs to climb, towers to explore, and cannons to touch (and sit on for a photo op!). Jacob really liked climbing on everything and pretending to shoot the bad guys with the cannons. When Jacob saw a picture of the castle under seige, he became very concerned and asked a million questions about exactly which guys were the bad guys and why were they shooting those cannons and why are the bad guys trying to get into the castle. After being assured that no bad guys were going to shoot him with a cannon, he seemed okay.
Afterwards, we headed back to Cashel to see the Rock of Cashel. Klif and Jordan opted to walk around town a bit while we went in. This place was amazing! The church was huge and had tons of carvings everywhere. The whole compound is situated on top of a huge hill so the views down to the countryside were beautiful. This is where we got to answer all of Jacob's questions about dead people and cemetaries. It was a little awkward. Then he wanted to know the names on every single head stone we passed which made for some weird glances from some of the other tourists.
We met back up with Klif and Jordan for dinner at Ryan's Daughter. I had the shepard's pie, Kris had the lamb stew, and Jacob and Ella gobbled down peas and carrots. Then it was back to Adare...

Pictures:
http://s466.photobucket.com/albums/rr28/kris_the_ta/Cahir%20and%20Cashel/