On Saturday I met two ladies from Michigan who told me they had been on an 1,800 mile trip around Ireland and had just been on The Bog Rail Tour. When asked if they had visited Clonmacnois they never heard of it or Newgrange or Ceide Fields or Clonfert or Meelick Church.
Then yesterday four cousins arrived in from Chicago Kathleen and Patsy O'Connor, Susan Sherlock Pingitore and Betty Saul and they had looked at this website before they came and had just visited Clonmacnois and seen the video and got the tour.
Hopefully they had a look at the bridge and the Fortifications and they have promised to visit Clononey, Banagher, Meelick and Eyrecourt and Clontuskert Abbey. I might even take them to Cloburren graveyard to visit their Great grandathers grave with a tank of water and some Parazone and even visit Devenish Island and Ragherabeg and The Quarries if they do a good job on the headstone. Birr Castle and Kinnity Castle and Leap Castle they can discover for themselves.