That's me with a beer (which I actually finished!). Anyway day before Yesterday I went to the Burren and the Cliffs of Moher on a bus tour. Before we got to the main attractions, though we visited a castle that had been rebuilt form an even older one who's ruins were not fifty meters away. After that we stopped at this picturesque tourist trap called the Burren House, both places were right on the water.
After that we drove through the burren and stopped at this old earthen fort. It was very cool. When it was occupied the berms were much higher and the mote deeper. Earthen forts were used as hiding places, the inhabitants would place a wooden plank under the mud and water of the mote so only they knew the location. This made it almost impossible for people who weren't wanted to enter. The fort we went to had yet to be excavated.
We also stopped to look at the high crosses. 
there were also a whole lot of cover stones of Bishops' tombs. It wasn't my favorite part, mostly because I'm not that fond of graveyards, and it's really hard to to walk on top of dead people in old ones. When we were in the Burren we stopped at a wedge tomb. There were about 33 people buried under the top stone ranging from children to older adults. Some of the remains were cremated while the majority had their bones picked clean by wild animals and later interned in the mass grave.
On the way to the tomb. We drove by the home where a priceless gold collar was discovered by a 16 year old boy in the 1930's.
I'm going to post on the Cliffs of Moher, with lots more pictures in another post because I can't get anymore to load.
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