Wicklow Mountains National Park was our last major stop before returning to Dublin. The park is below Dublin about ten miles. The park was officially opened in 1991 and is 51,000 acres. It has some monastic, mining, and military history but it's mostly the beautiful Wicklow Mountains. It has many hiking trails, two large lakes that we saw, and a wide variety of habitats, plants, and animals.

We started at the Glendalough Centre which features a collection of early medieval monastic structures, an education center on the miner's road by the upper lake, and remnants of a mining village. For us, it was a nice, quiet and peaceful walk in the woods and a nice way to end our trip to Ireland.

As it had been raining, there was water falling off the hillsides and water standing in the woods.

At the upper lake, we got to see a little wildlife in the form of ducks. It was a beautiful area.

We saw many different stones circles in Ireland. At this park, we saw a circle surrounded by a stone wall. I wasn't sure about the significance, but Vicky made her own determination as to its function. She was one with the universe....

And the water just kept falling off the mountain sides.