Ambushed by lack of signs leading to Collins site at Béal na Bláth

In July we had our first opportunity to come to Ireland for four and a half days and spend three of them in County Cork. 

We want to come back! People were lovely to us, the food and beer were delicious, the air and land were clear and beautiful, the music powerful, and our wise landlady left a rain jacket for our use.

But we do have one complaint. We drove around looking for Michael Collins’ birthplace and assassination site. The birthplace was comparatively easy to locate, though we did need a little help. We took pictures and studied both his birth home and the outlines of the new home which was burned down in the 1920s. If not for his descendants, even that wouldn’t be available.