Irish Auto Trail-Inchabaun to Listowel, County Limerick and Kerry

This is the first in our Irish Auto Trails series. It explores a section of western County Limerick and eastern County Kerry through Abbeyfeale and Athena.

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Camera: Sony Active Camera FDR-X3000
Vehicle: Avis Rental 2019 Opel Corsa

Image Credits
Purt Castle 1929 Postcard (Limerick City and County Museum - http://museum.limerick.ie/index.php/D...)

Music Credits
Yonder Hill and Dale/Aaron Kenny
Clover 3/Vibe Mountain
Feels/Patrick Patrikios
Distant Lands/Hanu Dixit
A Trip Around the Moon/Unicorn Heads
Glen Canyon/Dan Lebowitz
Barton Springs/Bird Creek
Forgiven Fate/Dan Lebowitz
Morning Mandolin/Chris Haugen
Tuath De Dunsany/Jesse Gallagher
Eternal Garden/Dan Henig

Endnotes
(1) The New Traveller’s Guide Through Ireland; John Cumming, Dublin; 1815; https://www.google.co.uk/books/editio...
(2) Fraser, James; A Hand Book for Travellers in Ireland corrected and enlarged; Ireland, 1854; https://www.google.co.uk/books/editio...
(3) Leigh, Samuel; Leigh's New Pocket Road-book of Ireland, on the Plan of Reichard's Itineraries; Ireland, S. Leigh, 1827; https://www.google.co.uk/books/editio...
(4) “Abbeyfeale Heritage Trail”; Abbeyfeale, Ireland; https://abbeyfeale.ie/heritage_trail
(5) “Goold Monument, ATHEA UPPER, Athea, LIMERICK”; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage; https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/bui...
(6) “Athea History”; Heritage Project-Diocese of Limerick; http://limerickdioceseheritage.org/At...
(7) “National Monuments Service-Archaeological Survey of Ireland”; Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht; https://webgis.archaeology.ie/Nationa...
(8) Statutes Passed in the Parliaments Held in Ireland: 1735-1759; Ireland, George Grierson, printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty, 1794; https://www.google.co.uk/books/editio...