My job takes me around Ireland, as I travel I try to get pictures that show a flavour of the area I am in. Click on title above to see the complete set of pictures if you have only opened one set. Please leave comments, its much appreciated to get feedback. These pictures are lower quality copies of the originals, apologies for this.
Tuesday, February 24, 2015
Thursday, February 19, 2015
Wednesday, February 18, 2015
Tuesday, February 17, 2015
Monday, February 16, 2015
Sunday, February 15, 2015
Cilin/Lisheen Corofin Co Galway
A Cillin is a unconsecrated graveyard, some date back 1000 years and the tradition was adopted from pagan times. The graveyards were used for unbaptised children, suicides and murderers among others, this one is on a Lisheen which is the remains of an old ring settlement these were often used for burial
Friday, February 13, 2015
Thursday, February 12, 2015
1916 Memorial Roscommon
Near Elphin this memorial to the Roscommon people who died in 1916.
During the 1916 rising 1200 men and women armed with light arms held off 16000 English army with gunships and artillary for 6 days in Dublin, with smaller battles throughout the country.
All though badly supported, defeated and major leaders executed, it brought back the dream of independence. The war of Independence between 1919 - 1921 eventually led to Independence from England.
Wednesday, February 11, 2015
Ross Castle revisited.
I was here before during October 2013 (to see click here) and the place has a lovely history.Ross Castle is the home of the O'Donoghue Clan and was built in the 15th and changed hands after the Desmond rebellion to the Brownes, the Earls of Killarney. It was the last Castle to fall to Cromwell during the Irish confederate wars when 4000 foot Soldiers, 200 horsemen marched on it and Artillary approached it from the lake. The Castle is open to the public as a museum with guided tours and no photos are allowed inside.
The lake beside the castle is supposed to be haunted by the ghost of O'Donoghue Ross, how watches over the castle and who can be seen on certain days of the year.
Ross Castle with snow capped mountain in background
Feeding the Ducks
Lake and Mountains
River walk
Fishing boats abandoned for the winter
Some of the walk around the castle
A seat with a view
Tuesday, February 3, 2015
Hedge School with a view, Co Carlow
I came across this seat with a plaque on a quiet rural road in Co Carlow.
In the 1690s in an attempt to Anglicise the Irish, the Penal Laws were enforced and part of those laws ment that no Catholics were allowed to educate their children or send them abroad for education.
So teachers set up schools in hedgerows and disused farm buildings and educated the children there.
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DURING THE PENAL TIMES A HEDGE SCHOOL WAS LOCATED IN THIS PICTURESQUE PLACE |
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The view from the seat |
This is a depiction of a hedge school
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