Family Reunion?
Trip Start
Sep 02, 2010
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Trip End
Sep 27, 2010
Dungarvan, County Waterford, Ireland
Thursday, September 23, 2010
After looking and asking around town, we discovered that, in Dungarvan at least, the laundromat does your laundry for you. So we drove to the facility and Tim took the laundry into the woman there. She pleasantly took his information and in conversation Tim mentioned the names of the families we were seeking out. "Oh, well, you should meet Eileen then, she works 'round the corner at the toy store. She's a Dalton. You even resemble her late brother." Tim was excited about finding real relatives so we looked up the toy store. Unfortunately, Eileen wasn't there that day, but the saleswoman who was on duty explained that Eileen's brother, Karl, owned the hair salon across the street. Across the street we went and met Karl there. He was not full of family information, but was happy to meet us and speculate on how we might be related. He told us a Kevin Dalton from CT had looked him up a couple of years ago...we'll have to look into that. e wished him well and walked up the street toward the Dungarvan museum to see if they had any info n the location of the family "farm". The museum was nice and the staff pleasant if unhelpful. They suggested that one person who would be there after lunch might be more helpful so we went back to the town square to find a restaurant ourselves.
We had a delicious lunch at a local place that had handmade cakes and baked goods and then returned to the museum. The person we'd been waiting for was there, but not very helpful either. We thanked them for their time then collected our laundry and relaxed at our B&B until we decided to find a pub with Irish music playing where we could eat dinner that night. We went back to the town square but all the pubs had music starting at 10:00 and a minimum age Molly couldn't meet. Instead, we settled on the Shamrock Restaurant and had a nice meal there before returning to the B&B for the night.
