Glengarriff was and still is a pretty fishing port on the coast here. It is also very close to a reasonably famous garden which you can only get to by means of a ferry from Glengarriff. This is on Garnish Island.
After two weeks of blissful holiday, the time had come to return home. However, we did not return the same way as we came. My mother expressed the wish to see the place where her mother had been born and brought up, and managed to persuade my father to take the necessary detour via Limerick and Nenagh to Whitegate. Needless to say, by the time we reached the outskirts of Limerick, my father decided that we did not have enough time to do more than pass by Nenagh if we were to get to Dublin before dark, so we missed out on Whitegate. Instead, we drove all the way to Dublin, where we stayed overnight with another of my mother's cousins before we drove back to Rosslare to get the ferry back to Fishguard, and home.
