Meath The Castle Tour

In the olden days, if you have the guts to use your life as a betting wage, you could be King. Standing here at the cemetery, looking at the ruins of an old church could teleport your imagination to the days of Middle Ages of how they live.

Watching Indiana Jones movies could leads you thinking there's a keeper laid to rest in the coffin. Was trying look out for ghost or the holy grail but they don't exist  here As usual, doors and stairs are really small.

Occasionally you might bump into strange object around the cemetery, do you believe in voodoo or black magic? We saw this in 2 locations both are very old cemeteries. Who would have do this, what are they doing, why in the cemetery? With my experience on this kind of stuff, do not touch any of this or disturb it.

You'll be astonished if I tell you this castle have 365 windows, from wiki info. Do you believe in 'Feng Shui'?
I do, but for modern thinking, everything have to do with marketing. But no matter how much money they put in nothing works. Kind of a jinx for most castle except for few that make it big.

Guess what is this? It's actually a 15-17th century hospital and guest house, modern day 5 star Hotel and Specialist centre located in Trim.

Trim Castle, the largest Cambro-Normans castle in Ireland, love the magpie on flight at the right corner of the picture. Here in Ireland you see lots of Anglo Norman castle which originated from Wales, and if your name end up with Walsh or Joyce, you could be one of the invaders descendants.

If you did watch the movie call 'Braveheart' you wouldn't believe some of the scene were

made here in this castle.

Anywhere you go in Ireland for sight seeing, you wouldn't want to miss 2 things, The Church or the Pub. As for myself, I love the local butcher, if you near Athyboy drop in Brogans the family butcher. I can say they have the best steak sold here on this side of the county. But still cannot beat Savage of Carlingford.

If you are loaded, why not rent the entire castle to host your party here in Ballinlough, but not sure if they allowed that anymore. However, Kenny Roger and many big names was hosted here for concert. We were lucky as this castle is not open for public. There is a local charity marathon going on and we were so happen to pass by and drop in

The colors of mid September are changing dramatically day by day. Soon you'll see the beauty of Autumn colors in Ireland. Will be the best time to take photo.