Day 93: Dún Laoghaire

I took a short break this day and decided to check off another place that I wanted to go to.  Dún Laoghaire (pronounced Dunn Leary) is a port town south of the city of Dublin but still in the same county. Most people would visit it to take a ferry ride over to Britain or around the coast line of Ireland.

Looking back at the docks for the ferry lines from the pier

I spent a couple hours down there just walking along the coastline and through a couple of the piers that surround the docks. At one of the piers you were able to get a nice view looking up the coastline to the other ports in the area and to some of the islands located just off the coast. This pier also had a nice lighthouse located at the end, unfortunately I was not able to get too close to it and go inside because it is still operational and used to help ships get in and out of the ports.

the lighthouse at the end of the pier

looking north at Dublin Port

It was a really cute area, but since I went down during the middle of a week day there was not much happening, so after grabbing lunch and enjoying the ever increasing sunlight, I left to go back to campus and duties of being a student finishing a semester of classes. (aka writing papers)