MONDAY 
AVOCA

Okay, unless you've seen the old BBC television show Ballykissangel that ran from 1996 to 2001, the next several pictures won't mean much. But I liked it and since the real village of Avoca was the setting for the imaginary village of Ballykissangel, it seemed a nice place to stop on the way back to Dublin.
This was Assumpta Fitzgerald's pub. If you Google it you will find a lot of fans who had their pictures taken sitting on these benches.
I don't remember what part of the show took place at the post office, but the sign for the Avoca post office said it was a film location.
It's interesting how some of the places have the names of their characters, like Fitzgerald's pub and Kathleen Hendley's shop. I guess it makes sense. More people would associate them with the characters rather than whomever actually owns them.
Ambrose Egan was a garda or policeman. This is the station.
Father Peter Clifford came to town from England and over three series fell in love with Assumpta. Then they both left the show. The last three series weren't as good.
This is pretty much downtown Avoca. There are neighborhoods a little bit up the road.
The ruins of old Castlemacadam just south of Avoca. Can't tell you much about it other than it was a church and now it's not.
This marker in the front was the oldest I had seen on my trip. At least the oldest one I could read anyway. There lieth the body of Mary Byrn. She dies in 1786.
I might be wrong, but I'd bet that back when it was new there wasn't grass all over the church floor.
Finally back to Dublin. Rather than stay at a B&B, I thought it would be best to stay near the airport at the Holiday Inn Express.
It was a nice and very modern room, except for the television. And it was up before dawn for the first shuttle to the airport and the long flight home.

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