EPISODE 463 IRELAND… EXPLORATION AT BUNMAHON AND CLIFFS OF MOHER AND TWO PUBS (CIRCA1980)
alan skeoch
Oct. 2021
WELL, here we are back in Ireland once again because I promised Aidan Coffey I would send all pics I could find. Some of these
were taken around 1980 when Marjorie and I took our boys, Kevin and Andrew, on a tour of the mines of the Copper Coast
before it became a tourists attraction.
Marjorie did not like the idea of scaling the cliffs and crawling through an ancient adit. The boys loved the idea … exciting and frightening.
Their eyes say much.
GRADUALLY the adit got larger and larger until we cold stand up…see Andrew above.
Copper stain oN the wall.
One of the shafts still held in place by a piece of lumber it seems. Not far below was water
that has filled most of he mine thereby preserving it for all time.
Then we visited the Cliffs of Moher. See the boys top left.
The cliffs are not fenced. As a result people take risks as Kevin and Andrew are doing here.
The haunting music of he Cliffs of Moher on violin and tin flute.
Not too sure what this fellow thought of us.
Always … it is easy to be welcomed in an Irish pub.
