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At the Gap of Dunloe visitors can cross a 6 mile mountain pass between Macgillycuddy's Reeks and Purple Mountain, either on horse back or by pony trap. When you've ridden through the Gap you then go by boat down river where they shoot the rapids between Killarney's upper Lake with Lough Leane and Muckross Lake at a place called the Meeting of the Waters.Then you are taken cross a lake to Ross Castle and back again. It is a very scenic day out if the weather is good.
Visitors usually start at Kate Kearney's Cottage. She was a local beauty
in the mid 19th century, who ran a shebeen (illegal drinking house)
and was reportedly free with her favours. She was constantly in trouble
with the law for she also sold poteen (illegal liqueur) to passers by. Her
luck ran out though when blight attacked the potato crop.She fled leaving
only her poteen-still behind.
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