If you are heading to Adare in C. Limerick it is worth taking in a trip to Foynes on the Shannon Estuary to the Flying Boat Museum which is housed in the restored terminal building of the Trans Atlantic Flying Boat service which connected this sleepy port town to Botwood in Newfoundland and during the war years to Lisbon, Azores,... more

I visited the museum on May 4, 2007. What a treasure! What a surprise! It is a real DON'T MISS SITE for all Pan Am and flying boat enthusiasts. The major surprise is that they have a full-scale mock-up of the huge Boeing-314 flying boat that first established trans-Atlantic passenger flying service. For a modest fee, visitors can walk through... more

Visited the second week of October 2006: the Foynes Flying Boat Museum has so much going for it; good location, parking, sizable building, interesting photography and displays, great introductory film detailing how Foynes became so important to early transatlantic aviation, and the impressive Boeing 314 Clipper Mockup that you can walk aboard and tour bow to stern. You do get... more