By programme five viewers next find Michael in the Comeragh Mountains of County Waterford on his way to Lismore Castle for an encounter with its owner, the Duke of Devonshire. Michael’s now in “the Decies” with its own gaeltacht, two mountain ranges, rivers, lakes, 30 beaches and a history dating back to megalithic times. Now on his 19th county Michael pulls in to Cobh, County Cork, the spot from which the last 123 passengers were ferried to the Belfast-born and ill-fated Titanic. From Cobh it’s on to Cork city, Mallow, Macroom, Bantry and Mizen Head. Here Michael does a U-turn and heads north to the Kingdom of Kerry and the Dingle Peninsula from where he travels by boat to the monastic site of Skellig Michael. Then it’s on to the Ring of Kerry. Next stop the River Shannon on the County Limerick side. It’s day 65. Today he will travel from Foynes to Glin Castle where he will meet the Knight of Glin and his wife Madam Fitzgerald. These people know a thing or two about the rebellious Irish.
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