Work Type: Trella Romine Diaries

Friday, July 31, 1998
Grocery shopped & took film to Meijer – Sweet corn at Duffys (also from Crum’s wagon) – Took video tape carrier to Sears & “Lou” (clerk) unjammed it & wanted to see some of the Irish video in it.

Bill Hutchman called & I gave him report on our visit with Wm Eugene Hutchman in Limvady.
Erma called later & asked about Claridon Prairie Tour – I had forgotten until she reminded me.

Thursday, July 30, 1998
Sorted thru mail & newspapers.
Mary out & I gave her the tan embroidered linen cotton sweater that I got at Quills (Ring of Kerry) TO bed at 9:00
Walked around garden & watered some. Had bfst in gazebo.
Letter from Dorothy (Hemmerly) Yocum; Springfield Oregon wanting 4 Hemmerly books – she is 1st cousin of Monica Loftin.
Checked e-mail – Sent message to all – Called Kathi.

My head feels like it is spinning – & I have no stamina-

Wednesday, July 29, 1998
Santolina BB to Shannon Airport
Plane full so stopping 4 hrs 9 min in Gander to refuel 40 minutes on ground 38,000 ft Detroit 12:30 local time

David woke me at 5:25 – Karen had been up since 5:–
6:35 to airport & returned car £250 – more charges – fuel – ions -extra day – David to check in – but we all had to go – Then back to departure gate – thro Duty free shop – bot coasters, Brendan Irish Cream & Bailey Irish Cream.
Boarding at 9:00 – Seated in center section – 4 across
Push of 9:40 – Taxiing to 9:50 – Takeoff 9:52 – See the Shannon River – In clouds – Turned watch back to 5:00 –
5:35 Light snack & bev
6:00 reading “The Master of Ballatrae” by RLS – finished it later
8:40 befinngin descent into Gander – arr 25 min.
Flew over “burial” of Master of Ballentrae!
10:40 AM depart Gander
1:00 arrive Detroit: Baggage last off carousel – Custom do sniffed our luggage (it was my apple tort in red thermal bag) so we had a baggage check – David’s “peat” passed. I didn’t fill in birth date & when I gave it custom check woman said “I’d say you’re doing very well!”
Sarah met us at 3:30 at gate – had been waiting 4 hrs! – Ate at Root beer stand – called Mary to meet at her house – there at 6:30 transferred my luggage to her car & said thanks all around. David & Karen & Sarah headed for Urbana & then Cinci – Mary brot me home & I collapsed. In bed by 8:30 PM (actually 1:30 AM Ireland time – had been up 20 hrs) Kathi called about 10 – She had been in Reno for toothache.

Tuesday, July 28, 1998
126 mi
Ring of Kerry
Santalina – Limerick area
Took our BB [voucher] left from Malahide
Tour costs £10
10:00 Connor Bus Tour picked us up at Flesk Lodge & made rounds of Killarney for pick ups – 3 kinds of roofs in Ireland – mostly tile – lots of slate – a few thatched. So much new residential building – 50% population is under 25 – Killarney was only 12,000 a few yrs ago now a city – 4 new hotels.
11:00 Gap of Dunloe – bit of bluye sky but Magillcuddy Mts in mist.
11:15 Kellvorgan pop 3,000 – aniomal fair in Aug: 33,000 people here.
Dingle Peninsula to right – driver recommended it – different than Iverone (Iva, Ray – then Mary)
12:00 Glenbergh – bad tourist season weather cold & wet.
842 Castle Wengs Folly – Bog Village – Tradesmen house – Horseshoe Mts
12:10 Mt Stage former horse changing spot
12:20 Sheep display area – 15 kinds in pen – 2 sheepdog & 8 sheep working
1:00 lvg Kell Bay – joke about dying crow & bull – ugh –
1:10 Castlebean – Elie Station – burns peat – changing to American coal 187,000 T. Will upset economy
1:25 Caherciveen – Dan’l O’Connor birthplace – Lunch £3.21 T-shirt & pin £11
2:05 Valentine Is first trans-Atlantic Cable to USA – Slate quarries
2:15 Boleen Head – Tiger Woods played course.
Skellig Michael 10 mi off shore – 30,000 pr gannets. Kids left – no jobs – pretyy but can’t eat it.
3:05 – Skeene cleanest – shopped Quilles – bot Mary sweater & me placemats – Karen merino blue cardigan (b’day present)
4:45 Ladies View of Lakes
5:05 Thatching roofers
5:10 – Picked up car at Flesk Lodge N22 via Tralee – Traffic Jam
6:20 Rd to Lestowel – beautiful drive – but satiated – Shannon Estuary
7:08 Ballylongford
8:05 Limerick – Conagh – Sntalina BB?

Monday, July 27, 1998
Bantry to Killarny
Karen’s Birthday 55
9:00 Lvg High Fields – couldn’t eat bfst – except hot cereal (porridge)
9:10 Doing Beara Peninsula overlooking Bantry Bay – lots of new houses
10:00 To Healy Pass – Rt 574 – Basalt mts – vistas – narrow road – crew working on washouts – seitchback – Dafvid lost normal lens for Canon – Windy – green meadows – sheep – no road protection – no one lives on area.
10:55 Shrine & white bridge at pass
11:00 Glenmore Lanke with sea beyond – misty – German from Frankfort touring. Waterfall video – David collected butterwort & fern.
12:05 – View of Iverayh Peninsula (Ring of Kerry)
12:25 Kenmare River – Bay (Fishing rights defined by whether it’s a Bay or River) Kenmare – David bot Karen a “sheep” for birthday £12.50 – Playing Irish CD
12:48 N71 over part of Ring of Kerry route – Macgillach mts – l – higher 2,700 ft.
1:00 Killarney Natl Pk – Upper Lake
1:20 Along Muckross Lake – Torc waterfall
1:25 Muckross Farams & House – Lunch – Lake – Garden – Toured house & David & Karen did gardens – I was too tired to do them or farm – Jaunting carts could have taken us.
4:20 Lvg
4:30 Flesk Lodge by Flesk RV – Trella nap until 7:00 – David & Karen to Killarny – shop & dinner – back at 8:30 – Trella hadd tea & cakes & read paper in lounge.

Sunday, July 26, 1998
9:25 Bantry House – David me 6th Earl & played his rosewood piano. [and saw his Conn 88H trombone which David has also]
11:30 to Mizen Head – farthest WSW in Ireland – via Goleene & Ewe Art Retreat Garden. V25 to 3:10 David & Karen hiked to lighthouse. 5:15 Killarock Garden on rocky stoney hill – waterfall. lvg 6:00
Area is like Burren along Dunmanus Bay
6:25 Bantry ate at Clare’s [illegible]

Saturday, July 25, 1998
Dunmore East to Bantry via Waterford.
Ashgrove – Crepes for bfst
9:05 – Ocean Harbor – Lobster 2 day catch – Lighthouse working and pleasure boats – Thatched roofs. 2 bananas & 1 pear £1.10 9:40 walk to beach – new construction can’t be told from old – video of kids swimming.
10:38 Passage E
10:50 Busy Bee Laundry etc. Waterford – “come back at 1:00” . £10
11:00 On Cork Rd – Waterford Crystal plant tour £5.50 each. £4.50 for pix
N25 good road to Cork – passing lanes. view of MTs at right, forest plantings, headed fields.
2:50 – Ardmore (home of Brass Band) – road at sea level along Yougal Bay – crossing estuary of Black Water River.
2:66 Yougal – lovely town – flower beds blooming hanging baskets
3:30 To Cobh (Queenstown) Cork’s harbor – steep cliffs – stone wall protecting rd from sea.
3:37 Cobb – walking – Tea at “The River” – Carathlia – Italian sandwich.
5:00 Pearse Square – pix – .St. Coleman Cathedral
5:25 Hunting “old cemetery” where Capt. Smith (Titanic) buried. Grown over – didn’t find -but graves from 55 Lusitania.
6:20 Ferry to Cork £2.50 – our only sea voyage in Ireland (~5 min).
7:45 R584 to 47R Bantry “Bfl Lee Valley”.
8:10 Ballinagary – signs in Gaelaecht.
8:45 Bantry High Field -separate rooms – 2 nights. The Sweeney’s. David & Karen at at Bantry Hotel – I had snack in room & elec Blanket! Gas 36.73l -£22.
Bed at 10:30.

Friday, July 24, 1998
Dublin Bus Tour
Drove down hill to port area where DART station was & parked car. Tara exit. Walked past Customs Building to O’Connell Street – PO for stamps. Bus tour of Dublin – double-decker bus – sat on top.
10:25 Lvg. Driver witty and factual – much of Dublin destroyed in 1916. Abbey Church (1860) – RR bridge (not architect’s dream). Liberty Hall (1969) – tallest building. Trinity College – Protestant until recently. Mainham Monastery became prison. Phoenix Park – People’s garden – 17,700 acres – Wellington Monument. ?? Crakes almost extinct birds until they left acres unmowed for their nesting. Pres of Ireland home – Mary McAliche – Pope celebrated mass at Wellington Monument for 1.25 million people in 1979. Ann Ambas residence. Mrs. Kennedy Smith – blessed for bringing peace to Ireland. Lord Chesterfield blocked development & created Phoenix Park 1740. Planted Horse Chestnut (called chestnut) beech – basswood – lime trees. 1700’s Georgian houses with painted doors & intricate fanlights. Merridin Squares Russell. Yeats lived in area now offices & showrooms sell for 986 million. St. Stevens green – been a common since 1172. Molly Malone pushcart statue – Temble Bar worth walking. Dublin Castle – City Hall – St. Patrick’s Church – Guinness Brewery had 24 children – 1 wife no multiple births. Stopped at former hosp – now Museum of Modern Art (a boat). Liffey bridges – Danl O’Connell Bridge (brot rights to Catholics) renamed in 1924 – Genl PO – Rebel Hdq during uprising
2:00 Karen & T shopping – T&D to Cybercafe – lunch there. Met Karen at DART
4:15 off DART – to car & headed for Waterford
4:40 – M11 SE Wicklow Mts in SL.
4:45 – Avoca Handweavers shop. Tall plant like at Keith’s front door – Roundwood – highest village in Ireland.
5:45 – Glendalough.
8:35 – Dunmore East “Ashgrove” B&B. Ate at “Ship” £49.50 £55 with top – Karen seafood medley – David monkfish – Trella crabmeat & cheg?

Thursday, July 23, 1998
Malahide – Dun Laoghaire – Dublin (sea breeze).
Called Eamon & canceled meeting – drove by his house & also Debby’s daughter not far from Cara.
9:00 – Malahide Castle grounds – not open until 10:00.
9:20 – Portamonk – gas £17.80 & car wash (£5.50).
9:50 – Howth – stamps £4.90 – mailed cards.
10:00 – called for room in Dun Laoghaire (#2 Lyndon).
10:50 – Dublin Port “Gateway to Holyhead & Liverpool”.
Along Liffey – toll road 60p.
11:10 – Blackrock – parked along bay – double-decker buses.
11:15 – ferry to Dun Laoghaire – only 5 minutes.
11:22 #2 Lyndon – actually #7 to sleep.
Walked Henry St. pedestrian – I met D & K. on bridge at 8. Ate at Flannagans Pub – at 8 for appearance on families computer screens in USA.
Back to Dun Laoghaire on DART.
Trinity College – £7 for 3 – Book of Kells exhibit. 9th century.
Awesome – 4 or 5 rotundas – pages displayed & annotated.
Library unbelievable – conservation actions delineated. Jonathan Swift,
Genl PO for stamps & exhange – back to Dun Laoghaire via DART.T relaxed in room – D & K to pub.

Wednesday, July 22, 1998
Letterkenney to Malahide via Limavady.
7:45 Newry – BP station in N. Ireland.
Potato country “Fresh dug Queens” – potato warehouse.
Now in N. Ireland – no checks but armed garda
10:00 in Londonderry – sent Journal 3 – Bought tin whistle in music shop right next door.
11:40 Limavady – phone call to Wm. Eugene Hutchman. He came in his car & led us to his home. Wife + 2 daughters + granddaughter. Gave me 2 discs with all his Hutchman research.Showed us print-outs – uses Family Tree Maker.
Served us tea & tarts. Mrs. Hutchman told of of family divided & guns & checks everywhere before Peace. Told of stone cottage where Hutchmans had lived.
1:30 lvg Hutchmans.
2:45 Giant’s Causeway £3 parking + £2.60 bus to rocks.
3:45 lvg north coast – Scotland in mist.
4:10 Ballycastle scenic coastal road to Cushendun.Sheep country – corkscrew roads clinging to cliffs.15 mph – can barely pass cars.
5:15 – Cushendall – fish & chips “take-away.”
6:00 Ballymena A26 Antrim spring water by-pass Belfast.
Saw industrial area.
6:45 Dunmurry (south of Belfast) former DeLorean plant
No reservation at Malahide – finally directed to Cara – vouchers not accepted. Used this voucher last night at Limerick.

Gasoline – 30 L (£17.44).
Called Maureen Ryan – Eamon too deaf to talk on phone.
Drove on – passed Kinsely Agriculture & Food Development Center. Did Keith work here?