What really happened in this Irish Castle 🇮🇪 | S1E72

Apparently a drop of blood falls from the tower by the lake daily Oh yeah, we can walk in here Oh, it's so dark My journey began at North America's most northern drivable point After riding through Canada and America I've crossed over to Europe From there I'll make my way across Asia and down to Australia New Zealand's southern most drivable point will mark the end of my journey I'm calling it the Big Spiral and this is Act 4 Good morning from Cork, Ireland Today is going to be a good one, I think Here, I'll show you on the map So we're just around here This area, this yellow block is Cork And the goal is to get right around here But this whole area is apparently very beautiful There's a national park in here Apparently amazing driving But I don't want to take the highway there So I'm going to probably go south and follow the coast And, you know, just see what I can see And I know there's some old castles Well, it's a little cloudy today But I think the rain's going to hold off Although it looks like it's raining a bit now But we'll see how it goes We'll just stay optimistic And yeah, we'll figure this out Alright So I figure while we're in Cork We should at least ride through the city Because it's kind of one of the famous places of Ireland Cork is, it's quite beautiful here And yeah, we should at least ride through the city, so But yeah, I spent the last few days at the Airbnb there And getting some work done And, uh The rumors are true Ireland is often quite cloudy I have to say, it doesn't rain a ton It's just overcast But I know in a day or two here, there's The weather's going to improve And we should get some sun, I hope, so I gotta try to time my riding days to To coincide with some sun, if I can But it's amazingly warm here Surprisingly warm Hello, it's editor Eric here The humidity in Ireland has been causing me some problems And at the time I was waiting at this construction The lens on my camera went from this To this There's no way I could have known this was happening as I was riding So I'm going to try to edit around this hazy look But there still will be a few shots of this kind of hazy thing Just because it's part of the story Alright, let's keep going with the video Oh, these little Irish streets With these cute little Irish shops Everybody's turning in here Which feels really weird cause now I'm on the right side Of the road But it's a bit flipped in this spot, I guess Oh, this is a cute street, though Lots of art Things like this Old church I guess every little town has their own little flag Like, I've noticed, you know, you ride through a town And maybe it's a football thing Cause I've seen signs for football clubs in these towns as well And when I mean football, I'm talking about soccer Not American football If that isn't obvious Look, there's a castle there! It's just right there! This town has the same color flag, the green and yellow Look at this guy, he doesn't even fit on the road Oh, different colors now Yellow and blue Yes Dom So, oh, Dom for the double Okay I feel like I should look this up cause I have no idea what's going on with these flags Cute little town again So many cute little towns My new flags again Green, white and black I think that's the ocean The Atlantic Ocean So, the last time I saw that was in Halifax In Canada When I went to the edge of town and did my boots in the ocean And now, I'm on the other side Kinda cool, so I guess I should dip my boots in the ocean, huh? Oh, oh! What's that? There's some ruins there! Oh, it's so cool Very moody here It's kinda cool The closer we get to the coast, the moodier it gets Pretty cool out here, actually And a pink house Wow, what an interesting place This fills with water at high tide, I guess And then it just stays there Gas station right there Just on the street Dunlop Castle, Three Castle Head Okay So, I'm on a peninsula right now So basically, it's a dead end So I guess the more I go this way, the less people will travel here And the roads get smaller and smaller Small enough to have grass growing in the middle Wow, it's cool here Hi cows Wow, look at that Oh, there's a gate No drones But it is Quite gorgeous here, very moody I've heard the west coast of Ireland is quite quite good, so It seems to be true, cause We're fairly west now The path here Look, the sun's actually coming out over there Oh, there It's right there Wow That is cool I wonder why they built a castle all the way out here It's just kinda the middle of nowhere, isn't it? There's like a big cliff here Oh, looks like they boarded it up Wow There's like a room in there Oh, you can walk in! Wow Wow, this is so cool Oh ya, they blocked that off cause it's a cliff Ya, you can see like it's a A V shape So like you can shoot arrows at different angles, I guess Out? Wow So this castle was built in 1207 And it, they used dry masonry So that means they didn't use cement or anything like that Although they did use something called blue till, which is A residue of the slate out here But basically the rocks found here are fairly angular and And kinda squared off flat And so that makes it relatively easy To kind of assemble these walls Ya, some of it has collapsed in, hasn't it? I guess this is okay to walk on Oh, it's so dark Small little room here But this, this tower closest to the lake Was apparently three stories tall at one point It's still pretty tall Let me see, is it still three stories? Oh, well ya, it's pretty much still three stories Just kind of crumbled a little Now apparently the last family that lived here was the O'Donohues And the speculation is that They all died by suicide or murder, which is just And because of this, apparently a drop of blood falls from the tower by the lake Daily Ya know, every time I visit one of these castles, there's always just some horrible Story associated with it It's also been said that there's still gold sitting in the bottom of the lake there Alright, well That was interesting And it seems, oh maybe, maybe not But like, the fog seems to be clearing But maybe as I climb, ya know, go back into the fog It's a really beautiful part of the world here though Oh, a tunnel Fog! This is crazy I didn't expect this Wow Oh, another tunnel Oh, oh this is cool This is a broken man He's at the bar anytime he can His wrinkled face, he knows no smile I've forgotten the man on the sadness isle When you go back to Dublin town Don't stay long, or they'll let you down To all of you, I wish you well If all the bad goings end So I just asked the owner of the Airbnb What's the deal with all the flags in all the villages? And he says, ya, it's Gaelic football So every little village is having a championship right now So they're all flying their colours And so that's what that is all about But ya, I don't really know what Gaelic football is But ya, there's a Gaelic football pitch down there And it's a female team practicing right now And ya But I haven't eaten anything since breakfast So I think I'm gonna go down to the pub And I might try a pint of Guinness I haven't had booze since, I think That Sourtoe in Dawson City That one really messed me up So I might try a pint of Guinness Because it's such an Irish thing I gotta try it But anyways I'll see you guys tomorrow And we'll continue our adventure In the Kerry region