Cold, rainy night

	IRELAND July, 2002
Monday Evening: Fog, mist & rain in Liscannor p 1 / 2
By Monday evening, July 22, 2002 the reunion activities were completed and just about everybody had headed back home. On this last night of my stay in Ireland, I wanted to make the most of the time left. It was a cold (48 degrees), windy-rainy-foggy-misty evening. I left the hotel driveway and headed left, walking along Liscannor's main street, past the pubs, bakeries, grocery and notions stores on the right and the real estate brokers' and rental agents' offices on the left. At the first street on the left, I took a left, heading back towards the cliffs above the Bay of Liscannor. The street begins at the bottom of a hill. At the top are row houses, some small pasture fields, the Liscannor National School (elementary), and- just outside the school playground- the ruins of a castle or fort tower- all overlooking the sea. Ireland at times seems to be a crazy mix of commercial areas, housing, cow and horse pastures, and ruins. But it all seems to work. The pictures below and on the next page were taken that cold, wet but beautiful evening when it seemed that everyone decided to light a peat fire to ward off the chill. The pictures are shown in sequence. The time shown in some pictures is correct- for Cincinnati Eastern Daylight. For the actual time in Ireland, add five hours.
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Liscannor's main street (land side).	Attractive contemporary home located on main street of village.	Shot taken from church (see next page) yard toward beautiful old home, also shown on next page.


Liscannor National (elementary) School.	Tower ruins located just behind and to the "left" of the school.


Cow pasture next to the school playground, ending in a sheer drop to the rocky coast below.	View from schoolyard/tower hill back to the Liscannor Bay Hotel.	The cows appear to be pointedly ignoring the tower ruins.


View of the school from the tower and cow pasture.	Schoolyard gates. Kids can get in through the notches on either side of the gate when it is closed.	Shot of the school and tower taken from the land side/
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