Laven'gro - Ireland

As a young man with time on his hands George Borrow went for wanders through the bogs round Templemore, Tipperary.  His father is stationed at the Barracks. 

Once called Richmond Barracks, it is now McCan Barracks, named after Piece McCan, an Irish freedom fighter who died on hunger strike in 1919.  During the first world war the barracks was used to house Prussian guardsmen prisoners.

George visited his brother and met Jerry Grant, a notorious outlaw on the way.  He notice that Jerry have a gash on his face, and learnt that his brothers friend Bagg had inflicted it trying to apprehend him earlier that day (as he had a £100 price on his head).  He failed and all put this down to Jerry being 'a fairy man'.. 

He was given a cob and with it visited Devil's Bit, a local hill (with a giant bite taken out of it).  Also Cully or Ryan Castle, where he met a old woman living in the ruins. He reports being able to see Crag of Cashel from his window.

Ryan Castle

Crag of Cashel