Isobel and Vanessa chat, fed by cans of 'Club Orange'
Corofin, Ennistymon and The Burran, County Clare, Western Ireland - 27th October 2006
It's the day after Caroline and Chris's wedding and Nosher and Isobel, with Gary and Vanessa, who are cadging a lift to Limerick, head over from the hotel on Spanish Point to a B&B in Corofin. We stop off in the small town of Ennistymon for breakfast at the Sugan Chair café and follow that with a brief look around the town, before driving around The Burran - an interesting, bleak, Dartmoor-esque region in County Clare, followed by a look at the sea near Ballyvaughan. Whilst we're in Corofin, we discover that we're not that far from the location used for the outside of Father Ted's house, which is somewhere vaguely near the village of Killnaboy. After something of an epic trek down ever-narrowing lanes, we finally find the actual house in the drizzle.
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Outside the Sugan Chair
Milling around outside the Sugan Chair café
The river surges by the aptly-named Cascades
Isobel watches the frothing river
Blake and Linnane: two closed shops in Ennistymon
A derelict hut, and a sign for a post office
Peeling red paint on corrugated iron
The quaint, but abandoned, Ennistymon Post Office
A painted shop
Isobel roams around near derelict buildings
Isobel stands about
Discarded pallets
An abandoned Massey-Ferguson 165 tractor
Buildings by the river
Wandering around Ennistymon
A derelict house
Walking up that hill
Inside a derelict chapel on the top of the hill
A view over Ennistymon
Rows of houses
Derelict chapel on a hill
A very rusty iron railing
Isobel walks past the Ennistymon Spar
More peeling paintwork
A fruit and vegetable stall
Ennistymon street life
The first view of the Burran
A derelict chapel
The derelict chapel houses some artefacts
Isobel inspects her feet
Animal feeders and a pile of pallets
A graveyard
We discover a partially-excavated alien fossil
A small window lets in some light
Isobel and Gary say hello to a dog
A derelict building
An imposing haunted shell of a once-grand house
Road sign to Ennis and Lisdoonvarna
Walking a Burran road
Cows on a hill
Cows silently observe Nosher taking photos
More cows on the Burran
A line of shifty cows watches from the distance
Loosely-packed stone walls
A track runs off to the horizon
More gloomy cows on the windswept moor
A solitary boat
Cute little cottages at Ballyvaughan
Gary stands on the sea wall
Gary walks along the sea wall
Vannessa giggles in a 'pretend to be in a band' photo
The sea at Ballyvaughan
Gary and Vanessa
A seafood pub at Ballyvaughan
Gary goes abseiling over the breakwater
A tangle of rope
A blue rope
Along the coast road, there's a small lighthouse
Gary stands, watching, on the top of a cliff
Breakfast back at the B&B
The lurid orange of Bofey Quinn
Isobel stands outside a pub in the damp
The main street of Corofin
Cake is eaten
More cake is cut
A couple of cats sit in a window
A ton of wedding cake
Father Ted's house!
Vanessa and Isobel outside Father Ted's house
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Isobel and Vanessa chat, fed by cans of 'Club Orange'
Isobel and Vanessa chat, fed by cans of 'Club Orange'
Modern social interaction, via the mobile phone
Outside the Sugan Chair
Milling around outside the Sugan Chair café
The river surges by the aptly-named Cascades
Isobel watches the frothing river
Blake and Linnane: two closed shops in Ennistymon
A derelict hut, and a sign for a post office
Peeling red paint on corrugated iron
The quaint, but abandoned, Ennistymon Post Office
A painted shop
Isobel roams around near derelict buildings
Isobel stands about
Discarded pallets
An abandoned Massey-Ferguson 165 tractor
Buildings by the river
Wandering around Ennistymon
A derelict house
Walking up that hill
Inside a derelict chapel on the top of the hill
A view over Ennistymon
Rows of houses
Derelict chapel on a hill
A very rusty iron railing
Isobel walks past the Ennistymon Spar
More peeling paintwork
A fruit and vegetable stall
Ennistymon street life
The first view of the Burran
A derelict chapel
The derelict chapel houses some artefacts
Isobel inspects her feet
Animal feeders and a pile of pallets
A graveyard
We discover a partially-excavated alien fossil
A small window lets in some light
Isobel and Gary say hello to a dog
A derelict building
An imposing haunted shell of a once-grand house
Road sign to Ennis and Lisdoonvarna
Walking a Burran road
Cows on a hill
Cows silently observe Nosher taking photos
More cows on the Burran
A line of shifty cows watches from the distance
Loosely-packed stone walls
A track runs off to the horizon
More gloomy cows on the windswept moor
A solitary boat
Cute little cottages at Ballyvaughan
Gary stands on the sea wall
Gary walks along the sea wall
Vannessa giggles in a 'pretend to be in a band' photo
The sea at Ballyvaughan
Gary and Vanessa
A seafood pub at Ballyvaughan
Gary goes abseiling over the breakwater
A tangle of rope
A blue rope
Along the coast road, there's a small lighthouse
Gary stands, watching, on the top of a cliff
Breakfast back at the B&B
The lurid orange of Bofey Quinn
Isobel stands outside a pub in the damp
The main street of Corofin
Cake is eaten
More cake is cut
A couple of cats sit in a window
A ton of wedding cake
Father Ted's house!
Vanessa and Isobel outside Father Ted's house