Sunday changeover

After three nights in Bantry, we depart at 10 for the next stay. First stop is Glengarriff, where we stopped on Friday. We had told the shop we would return on Sunday, so the folks who went to Garinish Island could take advantage of the shopping. Unfortunately, our leisurely departure fom Bantry wasn’t leisurely enough. We arrived at 10:30 with a 45 minute shopping halt, and the big Quill’s store doesn’t open on Sunday until 11, and they are leisurely about that. The other store was open, though, and they did good business. Next stop, Molly Gallivan’s Farm, a shop and heritage center. Molly was a 19th century farm widow with several children to feed.A road was constructed past her farm on the mountain road from Cobh to Bantry to Killarney for rich English hunting and holiday groups. Molly started a shop selling crafts with a tea room. Some of the tea was of a stronger sort, namely poitín (pronounced potcheen, emphasis on the first syllable). Along with the farm heritage talk and tour, there is a current demonstration of her still and distribution of a small sample of (properly taxed) similar wares. Kinda like moonshine you can buy in a liquor store in the Ozarks in a commemorative bottle.This a is a horse drawn cart for hauling turf (peat fuel for cooking, distilling, and heating), dug, dried, and brought from the moors in summer for survival through winter.Then on to Kenmare for lunch and wandering.Shopping is involved, and there happens to be a Quill’s woolens and knitwear store hard by the bus parking place. Glengarriff’s loss is Kenmare’s gain.And onward to Killarney.Our room at the Lake Hotel in Killarney.