Unnamed Rd, Addergoole, (osm) A yellow wheel barrow on top of a mountain, at the end of a steep foot path, of course poses some questions. The best answer we could come up with, was that some kids had made a joke out of taking it away from one of the path improvement sites and…
Pier Rd, Fough East, (osm)
R336, Culliagh More, (osm)
N59, Kylemore, (osm)
Kylemore Abbey, Pollacappul, (osm)
Kylemore Abbey, Pollacappul, (osm)
Kylemore Abbey, Pollacappul, (osm)
Kylemore Abbey, Pollacappul, (osm) For the remembrance of his beloved wife, Mitchell Henry, the raiser of Kylemore castle, built this miniature cathedral in 1887.
Kylemore Abbey, Pollacappul, (osm)
Kylemore Abbey, Pollacappul, (osm)
Kylemore Abbey, Pollacappul, (osm)
Kylemore Abbey, Pollacappul, (osm)
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)
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…
Pollacappul, Connemara (osm)
Spiddal Holiday Homes, Spiddal, (osm)
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…
Spiddal, Connemara, (osm)
An Tulan Cleasach, Bohoona East, (osm)
An Tulan Cleasach, Bohoona East, (osm) The title is referring to my post of a derelict basketball hoop in Croatia: “No Slam Dunks In Glavotok Any More”
An Tulan Cleasach, Bohoona East, (osm)
R559, Emlagh, (osm)