Day 5 - Nenagh to Dublin

Last night, we had a wonderful night at the Abbey Court Hotel in Nenagh. We had our first lesson on how to drink a pint of Guinness. First sip dreadful, like burnt Vegemite on toast. Then Karen explained how to drink it correctly and wow it was wonderful. (Photos below).

Our mission today was to endeavour to trace more information about Judy's Great Great Grandmother. We know that her name was Margaret Ann Darmody and believe that she left Borrisokane to emigrate to Austrailia where she met and later married Solomon Richard Maddern. She was Catholic and Solomon was Protestant. She brought a daughter Bridget to Australia with her, but much of Margaret's background remains a mystery.i

We visited the Genealogy centre and museum in Nenagh Co. Tipperary, which was extremely helpful. A woman there has given us much homework to follow up in Austrailia, because there were no records of Margaret or Bridget on the Irish database.

We then got lost on the back roads and byroads of Tipperary and ended up at a beautiful view of Lough Derg. Finally backtracked and stopped at a rural traffic jam (see photo below) before we finally found the correct road and ended up in Borrisokane.

In Borrisokane we inspected two graveyards and looked for a third, but all headstones were too recent to be Margaret's parents. So no luck today.

Then we travelled to Dublin and are now at the Gresham Hotel getting ready to head downstairs for deochanna agus dinnėar.

Abbey court Hotel Nenagh Co. Tipperary 

This is where we searched for Judy’s family history.

View of Lough Derg.

I ngrá ag Lough Derg.

Rush hour in Co. Tipperary.

Whilst searching for Judy's family, we found this profound statement!!

Ha'penny bridge, Dublin, opened 1816.

Let's give this stuff a try !!

This is dreadful, why are we drinking this ?

It is not so bad after all, but one is enough.