
Kylemore Abbey, Pollacappul, (osm)
The term “English garden” is nowadays used in Germany to describe a garden, where natural or nature-like shapes of terrain and plants are predominant and can provide a feeling of landscape beauty where man’s interference is well hidden. The Victorian garden of Kylemore obviously did not follow this paradigm, instead a place was carved out…
Kylemore Abbey, Pollacappul, (osm) Erected in a somewhat gingerbread style, Kylemore Abbey is certainly a contrast program to the terse Irish landscape. The house itself was used as a boarding school until 2010, now it’s one of Connemara’s biggest tourist attractions. For me it was all too “sweet”, so I was glad that the rainy…
Barr Na gCurragh, Bohoona East, (osm) Those boats were waiting top-down on racks for the next (I guess) training event. Curraghs are traditional Irish boats with a light wooden frame covered with tarred canvas, and formerly used even for shore fishery. The bus stop in Dingle features a Curragh as cover in the typical reverted…