DISCOVERY 1970: COUNTY CLARE IRELAND, ABBEYS, VETERINARIAN, COWS, FAMILY LIFE XD30742

Love our channel? Help us save and post more orphaned films! Support us on Patreon: Even a really tiny contribution can make a difference. This episode of the Discovery ’70 television show, featuring hosts Bill Owen and Virginia Gibson, follows the Blake family’s lives in County Clare, Ireland. Opening: Street in County Clare. Commercial activity, families walking. Men chat, play games. Title Sequence (0:31–0:59). Hosts at Irish graveyard. Celtic cross (stone). Song: “Come By The Hills.” Dysert O’Dea (1:44). Stone structures, Celtic cross. Dolmen in Burren (2:17). Bus passes castle in country (2:43). Dysert O’Dea abbey yard. Closeup: carved faces over doorway (monks / bishops) (3:06–3:37). Hosts near farmhouses. Group of men use ropes, reign in bucking horse in field (4:13). Horse neighs, lies down. Scariff veterinarian John Blake prepares shot of medicine. Men hold ropes, he administers shot, uses knife to remove something from bloody hoof, gives instructions. Close
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