The Award Winning 5 Star Ashford Castle Hotel – Cong, Co. Mayo, Ireland

After spending a few fun filled days in Dublin it was time to move on to phase three of our trip. For this we would rent cars (for Julie’s sisters family and ours) and drive across the Republic Of Ireland to the West where we would meet up with the rest of the Bedford Clan at Ashford Castle just outside of Cong on the Mayo-Galway border. We would spend a week here at the castle and do as much sightseeing of western Ireland as possible. The castle was originally built in 1228 by the Anglo-Norman House of Burke and over looks the Lough Corrib lake. The castle and its property has changed hands many times over the centuries and at one time was even owned by Sir Benjamin Lee Guinness of the Guinness Family.

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