{"id":2234,"date":"2015-10-31T06:29:17","date_gmt":"2015-10-30T19:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/?p=2234"},"modified":"2015-10-31T06:31:33","modified_gmt":"2015-10-30T19:31:33","slug":"ireland-bunbeg-harbour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/?p=2234","title":{"rendered":"Ireland – Bunbeg Harbour"},"content":{"rendered":"

Information about my Irish ancestors is thin on the ground. \u00a0Little is known about the ones from Donegal\u00a0\u00a0but even that is far superior to that known about those \u00a0further south in Ireland to the extent that\u00a0I only went to Donegal. \u00a0My great grandmother named her house in Sydney Bunbeg <\/em>and there was a suggestion that she was born in Bunbeg, Ireland. \u00a0Her father was known to rent land near Bunbeg.<\/p>\n

\"Ireland<\/p>\n

I booked into a B & B called Bunbeg House right on Bunbeg Harbour. \u00a0Before I could arrive there I had to fly to Belfast. \u00a0The scenery from the bus from the airport was interesting. \u00a0Some lovely green fields with hedgerows some of which included white fluffy sheep. \u00a0Some of the houses near the airport looked like the typical kids drawing of a house with door, 2 windows and a chimney. \u00a0A couple were like that but of 2 stories. \u00a0It was unusual as Irish houses are not usually of that design. \u00a0 I had several hours to kill, a good deal of which I spent being lost in Belfast despite \u00a0having a small scale paper map from the tourism office and digital maps. \u00a0I’m not known for my sense of direction but have always manged to navigate my way around foreign cities with minimal trouble so I’m not sure \u00a0what the problem was. \u00a0Fortunately \u00a0I didn’t have the same issue on the return trip.<\/p>\n

The bus to Bunbeg \u00a0departed with 4 passengers \u00a0right at peak hour and headed\u00a0west. \u00a0Technical problems with a camera and fading light ensured there were no photos of the houses, sheep or anything. \u00a0It was a 3+ hour trip only stopping to drop off or to pick up a few passengers in Donegal. \u00a0We were wilds of Donegal when the driver said we’d be transferring to a car for the remainder of the journey whereupon we left the main 2 lane highway and headed along unmarked roads for about 10 minutes to meet the car. The passengers, myself and a man who’d been
\n<\/a>asleep in the back, set off in \u00a0a very comfortable car. \u00a0When the driver realised where I was staying he drove me down to the B&B which I was very grateful for as it was a long, dark, hilly road from the bus stop to the harbour. The owner and her small grandson made me welcome and settled me into a room overlooking the harbour. \u00a0I was the only visitor that night in a converted corn barn.<\/p>\n

\"Bunbeg<\/a>

Bunbeg House<\/p><\/div>\n

The next morning, the owner after discovering my reason for visiting, that I had no transport and seeing that I was far from nimble on the stairs suggested that I might be better off staying at another B&B closer to civilization and said that she could arrange it with a friend. She also offered to drive me there. \u00a0I went off to do some research and to investigate the harbour.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>

The car park was also a dry dock for boats<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Looking<\/a>

Looking down the harbour<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Two<\/a>

Two large converted buildings on the harbour<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Harbour\"<\/a>

Harbour<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Boats<\/a>

Boats in the water<\/p><\/div>\n

\"More<\/a>

More boats
A few men were working on a number of the boats throughout the day<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Looking<\/a>

Looking down the harbour<\/p><\/div>\n

\"I<\/a>

I liked the colour and texture of the rock face<\/p><\/div>\n

\"I<\/a>

I decided to walk from the harbour to the main road. This house was close to the harbour with the B&B beside it<\/p><\/div>\n

\"A<\/a>

A bit further along the road and looking towards the harbour<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Along<\/a>

Along the way<\/p><\/div>\n

\"I<\/a>

I couldn’t actually see the sea from where I was standing but when you cut the mass of blackberry and other weeds away from the original photo this is whats left<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Some<\/a>

Some green grass and Mt Erigal<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Thickets<\/a>

Thickets of blackberry and scrub<\/p><\/div>\n

\"The<\/a>

The main road with the crossroads and\u00a0Bunbeg shops to the left. I took some photos of them some days later but they didn’t survive<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Information about my Irish ancestors is thin on the ground. \u00a0Little is known about the ones from Donegal\u00a0\u00a0but even that is far superior to that known about those \u00a0further south in Ireland to the extent that\u00a0I only went to Donegal. \u00a0My great grandmother named her house in Sydney Bunbeg and there was a suggestion that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[108,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bunbeg","category-family-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2234"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2254,"href":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2234\/revisions\/2254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}