(Please ignore the date...all photos taken in May 2008)
THE VENICE OF IRELAND
There aren't many towns in Ireland where you can walk along a canal as it crosses a major river while, at the same time, a train crosses the next bridge and a hundred meters further up river you can see road traffic cross another bridge. There are also numerous other bridges around this town of 3,500 people.
As you can see in the photos there is no shortage of photo opportunities.
The entrance to Moore Abbey the former home of one of Ireland's most famous tenors, John McCormack
There is an annual festival in Monasterevin dedicated to the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins
