Day 4: Carrick On Suir - Mullinavat

Strange Town, Carrick On Suir - teenage girls stood on dark street corners, or sat in doorways; men stumbled down the streets from pub to pub; souped-up cars paraded non-stop down the main street. We were glad to leave, making a 7am getaway to escape the traffic on the first 1km of road walking.


We reached the tiny village of Piltown just before 10am and sat patiently outside waiting for Anthony's Inn to open and begin serving breakfast. Tom The Landlord and Robin The Chef made us feel at home, with Cara allowed to curl up underneath my table and Lucy put into the back garden with a bucket of water.


After a great breakfast we hit the road refreshed and began using the map in earnest, detouring off some of the road sections of the Leinster Way and picking our own way through fields, back-roads and woodland. At one stage we entered into a sanctuary for something, with high fences, corrugated shelters and wire traps around us. Nervously we kept going expecting to come across wild boar or dinosaurs, but saw neither!




Towards day end we got chatting to Fiona, Jimmy and Paddy, pictured above, who allowed us to re-water. Not long afterwards we descended into Mullinavat and our night's lodgings at Glenraha Farmhouse B&B.