Foodie Finds: Avoca in Moll's Gap, Co. Kerry, Ireland

We'd driven for hours from Co Clare toward our cottage in Co Kerry. We didn't have any restaurant recommendations in Killarney, but had a great one for Moll's Gap, about a half-hour south-west of Killarney. And, it was halfway to our rental home, Pier Cottage, west of Sneem. So, we held out a little more for the Avoca gift shop and cafe, in Moll's Gap.

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Ireland's history is haunted by political and social upheaval, and the 20th century is what many are most familiar with today. Before the Troubles of the 1960s through the 1980s and before the Irish Civil War of the 1920s there was the Easter Rising of 1916. This event is important to the understanding of 20th century Irish politics and society.