We visited three castles in one day. Our first stop was Rock of Cashel where St. Patrick baptized a king in A.D. 450. We got to see the original St. Patrick's cross which has been moved in indoors to protect it.
Our second castle was Cahir. This was our favorite of all three castles. It was privately owned until 1961. It is the best preserved of all castles in Ireland. It still has a moat surrounding it and a cannon ball lodged into a side wall. We had free roam of the entire castle grounds after a great tour. Scenes from famous movies such as Braveheart where filmed at this castle.
The last castle was the most famous one in all of Ireland, the Blarney Castle where you kiss the famous Blarney Stone. Three out of four of us kissed the stone, I chickened out.
We spent the night in Kenmare. We ate dinner at a pub and listened to a traditional Irish band and where entertained by a world champion Irish step dancer by the name of Joe Sullivan. Joe asked for volunteers for a Irish line dance and Darin was more than willing to dance in front of the pub audience, he said it was a blast!
