Mom mentioned last night that I hadn't included Coole Park in the travel blog. It was near the beginning of the trip and I didn't quite understand how everything worked yet. Also, I was working on a time limit in a pub in Galway to get that part of the trip done and freaked under the pressure
Anyway, Coole Park was very beautiful and should not be left out so I'm posting it now. Coole Park was once the home of Lady Augusta Gregory, dramatist, folklorist and co-founder of the Abbey Theatre with Edward Martyn of Tullira Castle and Nobel prize-winning poet William Butler Yeats. Coole Park, in the early 20th century, was the centre of the Irish Literary Revival. Yeats, George Bernard Shaw, John Millington Synge and Sean O' Casey all came to experience its magic. They and many others carved their initials on the Autograph Tree, an old beech still standing today. Although the house no longer stands, one can still appreciate the surroundings that originally drew so many here (http://www.coolepark.ie/).
