jaunting car

An 1831 Jaunting car is located in the main room.

They were brought down by jaunting car from the narrow gauge station at Parkmore.

The two of them passed a tavern where people were jigging in the street, then found a jaunting car and climbed in.

Jaunting car: A sprung cart in which passengers sat back to back with their feet outboard of the wheels.

See dog cart, gig, governess cart, jaunting car, and trap.

Outside car: See jaunting car.

He and his wife extricated themselves from the mass of jaunting cars and skirted the throng streaming toward the green.

Tourists can avail of jaunting car rides and a guided tour of the town's attractions offered by the jarvies.

Those who wanted a more comfortable ride could take a jaunting car from D'Olier Street for threepence.

Killarney is also famous for its jaunting cars (horse drawn carts) operated by local jarvies.

On an Irish Jaunting Car through Donegal and Connemara (1902)

Jaunting cars remain in use for tourists in some parts of the country, notably Killarney where tours of the lakes and national park are popular.

There was also a hotel and a maze for visitors, who came by train to Ballynahinch and then to Spa by jaunting car.

Their introduction represents one of the safety improvements from the high and unstable dog cart or jaunting car to the lower and more stable governess cart.

Irish Jaunting Car / Johnny My Love(1960)

Visitors would arrive at the BNCR station in Ballycarry and then either walk there or be taken onwards by jaunting car.

Examples were the ralli car, jaunting car, governess cart, tax cart (or taxed cart) and Whitechapel cart.

The words were written by the Ulster-Scots entertainer Harry McCarthy, with the melody taken from the song "The Irish Jaunting Car".

Jaunting car, the horse-drawn vehicle owned by Michaeleen Oge Flynn that is first seen delivering Sean to Innisfree at the beginning of the movie.

In 1861 he wrote the song "The Bonnie Blue Flag," about the unofficial first Confederate flag, using the tune from "The Irish Jaunting Car."

In the early 1800s, the British government levied a tax on every "jaunting car or pleasure car" (1813 Act of Parliament, 53 Geo III c.59).

Even in the 1840's the streets outside the hotels swarmed with jaunting cars and jarvey-men prepared to take travelers to the lakes to the accompaniment of blarney and tall tales.

The colloquial name for the driver of a jaunting car was "jarvey", referenced in the song "The Jarvey Was a Leprechaun" by Val Doonican.

Sightseers would travel by scheduled services or special excursion trains and alight at the stations of Whitehead or Ballycarry, before travelling to the Gobbins by jaunting car or charabanc.