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2004 TOUR OF IRELANDBen Oostdam |
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At 16:30 on May 29, just past Skibbereen, I found a B & B at
"Riverview Farm" (below left) , looking out over the river and
the cemetery containing a mass-grave of the 1840's Famine.
 View from my window across "Riverview Farm" and my Opel. please click to enlarge and see the stone bridge across the River Ilen. |
 My hostess Kay (right) put one son and three daughters through university and also feeds the cattle |
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That evening, I walked around town and had a mussel dinner at the An Goban Soar Pub, served by Jackie (right). I also met a German waitress and Italian chef, and paid a brief visit to the Heritage Centre. |
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Skibbereen - Top Ten Facts about Skibbereen Photos of Skibbereen: set 1 - set 2, by Dave Parker The 1846/7 Famine - Views of the Famine, by Steve Taylor "Oh son, I loved my native land, with energy and pride" "Til a Blight came over all my crops, my sheep and cattle died" "My rent and taxes were to pay, I could not them redeem" "and that's the cruel reason, why I left old Skibbereen." BLO fecit 20040707 (PBS !) - next page (6) |
 Skibbereen Funeral, 1847 |