Irish Auto Trail-Inchabaun to Listowel, County Limerick and Kerry

This is the first in our Irish Auto Trails series. It explores a section of western County Limerick and eastern County Kerry through Abbeyfeale and Athena. For more of our American Auto Trails and Slow Travels guides, available in print or eBook format, use one of the links below: Amazon Lulu Press Camera: Sony Active Camera FDR-X3000 Vehicle: Avis Rental 2019 Opel Corsa Image Credits Purt Castle 1929 Postcard (Limerick City and County Museum - http://museum.limerick.ie/index.php/D...) Music Credits Yonder Hill and Dale/Aaron Kenny Clover 3/Vibe Mountain Feels/Patrick Patrikios Distant Lands/Hanu Dixit A Trip Around the Moon/Unicorn Heads Glen Canyon/Dan Lebowitz Barton Springs/Bird Creek Forgiven Fate/Dan Lebowitz Morning Mandolin/Chris Haugen Tuath De Dunsany/Jesse Gallagher Eternal Garden/Dan Henig Endnotes (1) The New Traveller’s Guide Through Ireland; John Cumming, Dublin; 1815; https://www.google.co.uk/books/editio... (2) Fraser, James; A Hand Book for Travellers in Ireland corrected and enlarged; Ireland, 1854; https://www.google.co.uk/books/editio... (3) Leigh, Samuel; Leigh's New Pocket Road-book of Ireland, on the Plan of Reichard's Itineraries; Ireland, S. Leigh, 1827; https://www.google.co.uk/books/editio... (4) “Abbeyfeale Heritage Trail”; Abbeyfeale, Ireland; https://abbeyfeale.ie/heritage_trail (5) “Goold Monument, ATHEA UPPER, Athea, LIMERICK”; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage; https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/bui... (6) “Athea History”; Heritage Project-Diocese of Limerick; http://limerickdioceseheritage.org/At... (7) “National Monuments Service-Archaeological Survey of Ireland”; Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht; https://webgis.archaeology.ie/Nationa... (8) Statutes Passed in the Parliaments Held in Ireland: 1735-1759; Ireland, George Grierson, printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty, 1794; https://www.google.co.uk/books/editio...