princess of the castle

We stopped at Cahir castle on the way from Galway to west Waterford, where Abigail and John live. The castle is great, very old and very well restored with lots of windy little stone staircases, turrets, towers and battlements for Sylvia to explore. We went on a guided tour with the theme "the defences of Cahir castle". Which meant a run through of all the gruesome ways the inhabitants of the castle had for dispatching attackers, including boiling oil and hidden arrow slits. Ciara devised her own "star" defence as well (see pic below).

There was a well too, which was down a lot of very dark and dank steps, and Sylvia was very brave. She didn't want to leave at the end, saying "can't we do some more exploring?"