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Michaleen's Bridge
Another shot of the bridge but this one has been post processed removing the power pole and power lines to...
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Evening in Connemara. I wonder if Oscar Wilde might have been thinking of a similar evening when he...
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Uploaded on Sep 21, 2008
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Inside the National Cathedral, Galway. I was told that there are two people the Catholic Irish consider to...
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Piles of turf cut and stacked. For a house heated with turf, you need a stack twice the size of the house to last the winter.
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Uploaded on Sep 17, 2008
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Lovely little place. I understand that each person who does thatch roofs has their own signature way of...
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Standing next to the Stone of Destiny at the Hill of Tara is this memorial to the United Irishmen who died at Tara during the 1798 rebellion.
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The crypt of a former Dean of St. Patrick's, Rev. Jonathon Swift. It is set into the floor of St....
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Trinity College - Dublin In the movie Educating Rita, Micheal Caine's office was on the second floor of, I think, the third building back.
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The fictional Sweet Molly Malone - with typical Dublin sense of humor she is nicknamed "The Tart With...
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A very well known bar if you are a fan of a certain movie. In the village of Cong. Actually when the...
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This was such a beautiful house with the thatch roof that we had to stop and take a picture of it. County...
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Notice the scars of the fields on the hillside? According to our friends, many of these remain from days of the famine.
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Killary Harbour - I believe from this end of the fiord, it is about 18 miles to the open ocean.
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Newgrange is what is known as a passage tomb. It was built around 3200 B.C. or about 700 years before the great pyramid of Giza.
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The entry kerbstone at Newgrange with megalithic carved art. The only other known example in the world of...
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The roof box over the doorway into the passage in Newgrange. On the winter solstice along with a couple of...
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