Today, we're visiting the city of Athlone, which is in the very center of Ireland. We boarded a "Viking" boat on the River Shannon, at Athlone Castle. The trip was from the castle to the Monastery of Clonmacnoise, founded in 545 A.D. by St. Ciaran. At the beginning of the tour, the boat entered a lock which lowered the water level about four feet. About an hour later, we reached Clonmacnoise and toured the site for about 90 minutes before returning to athlone on a bus.
One of our goals today was to get our rental car washed and vacuumed. Four weeks of Irish roads and weather put the car under a layer of dirt that would put an Irish bog to shame. We arrived in Drogheda at our B&B around 4 p.m. which keft us plenty of time to get the car washed. It sure looked better once it was cleaned. There was actually a car under all that dirt.
Irish roads have letter designations that determine speed limits. The M roads are the high speed freeways, with a 120 kph speed limit (about 75 mph). The next roads are N roads, with a maximum speed of 100 kph (about 62 mph). R roads are rural roads with a maximum speed of 80 kph (about 50 mph). The lowest designation are L roads, which range in width from narrow to narrower, and have a maximum speed of 60 kph (about 37 mph). We road on all of these types of roads in the past four weeks.
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