We're on our last full day in Kinsale, County Cork.
We headed back to the town of Douglas to see if we could find out any information on our "Kiley" family history. When we got back to the St. Columba Parish office the secretary was there and looked for information on their church history database.
No luck finding a Mathew Kiley, nor any of his children on the records there. The secretary suggested other small communities in the area, but we ran out of energy and will plan on writing letters in the future.
On the way back to Kinsale, we stopped at Ballyspittle where the "Diva Bakery" is located. They had the tasty brownies and lemon scones at last Tuesday's Famer's Market and so, we picked up a couple of scones and brownies for dessert later on, then headed back to Kinsale.
Back in Kinsale, we had our last meal at "Jim Edwards" and walked off our meal by taking a walk through another part of the town.
We stopped at the Church of Ireland church, St. Multose, which has only been there in Kinsale since 1160.
The interior was well preserved for a church that old. Looks like it's a never-ending restoration process, since they were asking for donations for a recent 50,000 Euro renovation of the electrical/lighting system.
Further up the hills of Kinsale was a Carmelite Friary that was in great shape. We meant to ask if any of the Carmelites had gotten to our Carmelite Holy Hill Church in Wisconsin, but there was no one around.
The interior of the church was as lovely as the exterior you see below, but the photos didn't come out bright enough to show it off.
Looking for a Carmelite priest did remind us of this story we heard about a group of boys in the area that had befriended a homeless, vagrant dog that was always wandering around town.
They decided that the only decent thing to do was for one of them to take the dog home and care for it. But they all wanted it, so as they argued louder and louder in the streets outside the church, it was finally decided that they should have a lying contest and whoever told the best lie should get the dog.
Well, Father Mahoney, standing nearby, heard them talking about this lying contest and came right over and told them a thing or two about lying.
He started with the "Don't you know it's a sin to tell a lie?" And he continued on for a good 10 minutes, ending with "When I was your age I would never dream of telling a lie!"
The boys all had their heads down by the end of that sermon. They mumbled together for a bit and Father Mahoney felt that he had reached them with his message.
After a little while, one of the boys said, "Okay, okay, I guess Father Mahoney wins the dog." [;-)
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