From our flat walk organiser, (and intrepid weather forecaster!!!) Maura McAuliff:
We were blessed with the weather on Wednesday last for a lovely canal walk of nearly 14km in total, along the Grand Canal/Barrow Blueway.
We started with coffee and had a quick stop at the monument erected to Gerard Manley Hopkins who visited the town regularly as a nature escape from Dublin in the 1880s.
The canal walk is scenic and leads to Fisherstown Pub which is a picturesque, thatched gem. The inside is like a museum.
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One notable piece is the old “mangle” – who remembers feeding sheets and towels through one of those in your childhood?
Along the way we met some friendly alpacas and Maura O Dwyer pointed out the old pulley bridge at the end of our walk.