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Memories of Dingle - Eagle Mountain at Dunquin ending abrubtly into the Atlantic Ocean. Dunmore head in the background. - Ireland 2019

One of my favourite views in the world. The Blasket Islands were covered by mist and gusts of rain.

It was raining, so I quickly had to get out of the car to take the shot by hand. With all the rain and mist on the Blasket Sound I had a great time trying to find the horizon to straighten the shot!

(Re-edit of an earlier version) It is so exciting to know that I'll be there again in September for 3 days, after spending a week at Caragh lake! I found a lovely B&B just on the other side of Slea Head. Room with seaview.

Memories of my last trip to Dingle in 2011. I got very ill while I was there, and not many of you know that I have become (partly) disabled after I went home. I have Lupus, an auto-immune disease which have now also affected the nerves in my legs.

I will therefor not be able to go again, I will have to do with all my lovely memories of my trips to Dingle. Unfortunetely I didn't have a very good camera then and a lot less experience. My illness have made me more determined than ever. Here in the Netherlands are bicycle roads on which I can drive around in my jalopy (scootmobiel), so I still have plenty lovely places to discover

View along the south coast of the Dingle Peninsula (County Kerry, in southwestern Ireland), between the archaeological site complex at Fahan-Dunbeg and the tip of the peninsula at Slea Head, on an afternoon of shifting sun and cloud at the end of September 2013.

 

This stretch of the coast is below Mount Eagle. The direction looks back towards the east, with Dingle Bay (Bá an Daingin) towards the right, i.e., south.

 

The Dingle Peninsula is the northernmost of the five peninsulas of southwestern Ireland that stick out like fingers into the Atlantic Ocean. Its name in Irish is Corca Dhuibhne, sometimes Anglicised as Corkaguiny. The Irish names for Fahan and Dunbeg are Fán and Dún Beag respectively, while Slea Head is Ceann Sléibhe and Mount Eagle is Sliabh an Iolair.

 

(Irish names from The Rough Guide to Ireland, by Paul Gray and Geoff Wallis (10th edition 2011), p. 304, 308-309, and the Dún Beag Visitor Centre website (viewed 30 November 2014); "Corkaguiny" alternative from Blue Guide Ireland, by Brian Lalor (8th edition, 1998), p. 276.)

 

(From the "archive"-- 2013.)

 

[Dingle south coast cliffs view back sun 2013 sep 30 c; IMG_4770]

I was struggling a little with shadows & light with this as a colour image (there wasn't much descernable colour!) so I decided to try it in monochrome. I think it works OK but am open to constructive criticism. For my group Telegraph Tuesday new members always welcome HTT!

Gulls perch on a stone wall along the south coast of the Dingle Peninsula (County Kerry, in southwestern Ireland), between the archaeological site complex at Fahan-Dunbeg and the tip of the peninsula at Slea Head, on an afternoon of shifting sun and cloud at the end of September.

 

This stretch of the coast is below Mount Eagle. The direction looks back towards the east, with Dingle Bay (Bá an Daingin) towards the right, i.e., south. Mountains of the Iveragh Peninsula can barely be made out to the southeast (along the horizon at the far right).

 

The Dingle Peninsula is the northernmost of the five peninsulas of southwestern Ireland that stick out like fingers into the Atlantic Ocean. Its name in Irish is Corca Dhuibhne, sometimes Anglicised as Corkaguiny. The Irish names for Fahan and Dunbeg are Fán and Dún Beag respectively, while Slea Head is Ceann Sléibhe and Mount Eagle is Sliabh an Iolair.

 

(Irish names from The Rough Guide to Ireland, by Paul Gray and Geoff Wallis (10th edition 2011), p. 304, 308-309, and the Dún Beag Visitor Centre website (viewed 30 November 2014); "Corkaguiny" alternative from Blue Guide Ireland, by Brian Lalor (8th edition, 1998), p. 276.)

 

[Dingle south coast Glanfahan cliffs view back gulls 2013 sep 30 c; IMG_4780]

View along the south coast of the Dingle Peninsula (County Kerry, in southwestern Ireland), between the archaeological site complex at Fahan-Dunbeg and the tip of the peninsula at Slea Head, on an afternoon of shifting sun and cloud at the end of September.

 

This stretch of the coast is below Mount Eagle. The drection looks back towards the east, with Dingle Bay (Bá an Daingin) towards the right, i.e., south.

 

The Dingle Peninsula is the northernmost of the five peninsulas of southwestern Ireland that stick out like fingers into the Atlantic Ocean. Its name in Irish is Corca Dhuibhne, sometimes Anglicised as Corkaguiny. The Irish names for Fahan and Dunbeg are Fán and Dún Beag respectively, while Slea Head is Ceann Sléibhe and Mount Eagle is Sliabh an Iolair.

 

(Irish names from The Rough Guide to Ireland, by Paul Gray and Geoff Wallis (10th edition 2011), p. 304, 308-309, and the Dún Beag Visitor Centre website (viewed 30 November 2014); "Corkaguiny" alternative from Blue Guide Ireland, by Brian Lalor (8th edition, 1998), p. 276.)

 

[Dingle south coast Glanfahan cliffs view back 2013 sep 30 c; IMG_4767]

"The Carr-LeValley, named Mount Eagle. It is the oldest house in West Warwick, built in 1722 by the Carr family. After Sarah Carr inherited the house, she married Rev. George Pigot. Later, he would trade the houses with his friend Peter LeValley in Marblehead, Massachusetts."

 

Source is the book: Pawtuxet Valley Villages: Hope to Natick to Washington

This was taken on the way down from Mount Eagle Lake to Cilliruith. The stone walls of the buildings along with the galvanised roof add to the garden colour

A view of the valley on the Nashville side of Mounteagle.

Beehive Hut

 

Glanfahan

Dingle Peninsula

County Kerry

Ireland

It is unusual for farmers to leave good flat arable land uncultivated. There's usually a reason. In this case, the strip of unused land contains the remains of a tower-house. So little of it remains that finding it without a drone would have been time consuming and tiresome, but as it was, it was quite easy. It is NOT the pile of stones you see here in the foreground, which appears to be cart loads of dumped stone, presumably cleared off nearby fields. The castle remains are at the far end of this strip.

 

I am 4-1/2 miles ESE of the town of Tain, in the former county of Ross-shire, parked beside a minor road at the east end of Loch Aye - which used to be known as Lochslin, or Lochslyne.

 

The castle is sometimes referred to as Eracht.

  

Arundel Cathedral, Arundel, Sussex

Also buried in this chapel:

 

- Anne Countess of Arundel widow of St Philip Howard + 1630

Anne Dacre was born 21 March 1557 the eldest daughter of Thomas Dacre, 4th Baron Dacre of Gilsland and Elizabeth Leyburne of Cumbria.

In 1567 her father died and her mother married Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk. in September of that year her mother died and Anne became the ward of the Duke of Norfolk.

However, Anne and her siblings were educated by their grandmother Lady Mounteagle. As such she was brought up as a devout catholic.

1569 it was arranged that Anne would marry her stepbrother Philip Howard. Since they were both so young they were seperated and the ceremony was performed again two years later.

Initially they did not get one, and saw very little of each other until the 1580s when she became the Duchess of Arundel.

They moved houses several times including Audley End, Arundel House London, Charterhouse and Howard House before settling at Arundel Castle where she officially converted to Catholicism in 1582. As a result she was placed under house arrest in the home of Sir Thomas Shirley for a whole year, and where she gave birth to he daughter Elizabeth in 1583.

She reunited with her husband in 1584, who following his wife's example also converted and was himself placed under house arrest, from which he attempted to escape and leave the country but was caught and thrown in the Tower. As a result he never met his only son, Thomas and never saw his wife again, dying ten years later still confined on 19 October 1595.

As a widow Anne was left in a dreadful situation as all his possessions were withheld from her. She was forced to sell her own lands to secure an income and pay off his debts. After many years she was able to claw back what was rightfully hers by inheritance.

When Philip died she took a vow of chastity and never remarried, eventually moving back to Carlisle. She spent her days in church and religious observances.

She was also a great author compiling letters, poems and journals. She wrote the accounts of her life and that of her husband, and the torment they suffered.

She died of natural causes aged 73 on 19 April 1630. She was buried in the Fitzalan Chapel at Arundel Castle.

 

- Henry Frederick, Earl of Arundel +1652 and Countess Elizabeth + 1674

Henry Frederick Howard 22nd Earl of Arundel was born 15 August 1608 to Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel and Alethea Talbot, Baroness Funivall.

He was baptised at Woostock Palace with Anne of Denmark as a godmother. Prince Henry and Princess Elizabeth were also in attendance.

4 November 1616 he was invested as a Knight, Order of the Bath.

1628-29 MP for Arundel and again in 1640. 1634 represented Callan in Ireland.

August 1634 became a Privy Counsellor.

13 April 1640 he became Lord Mowbray.

He fought in the Battle of Edgehill.

1642 graduated from Oxford University with an MA

1646 he became Earl.

1648 he was fined £6,000 by Parliament but was allowed to compound for his estates.

He died aged 43 in the 17 April 1652 at Arundel House, London.

 

7th March 1626 he married Lady Elizabeth Stuart, daughter of Esme Stuart, 3rd Duke of Lennox and Katherine Clifton, Baroness Clifton of Leighton Bromswold.

They had nine sons and three daughters.

She died aged 63 from 'the stone' on 23 January 1674.

 

- Henry 6th Duke + 1684 and Duchess Jane + 1693

Henry Howard, 6th Duke of Norfolk was born 12 July 1628 the second son of Henry Howard, 22nd Earl of Arundel and Lady Elizabeth Stuart.

1669 created 1st Baron Howard of Castle Rising

1672 1st Earl of Norwich and restored to the role of Earl Marshal of England.

January 1678 took his seat in parliament, but by August after the popish plot catholics were barred so he withdrew to Bruges for three years. He returned to England for a short time in 1680 to answer charges at the assizes and to sit as a peer at the trial of his once good friend William Howard, 1st Viscount Stafford. Sadly Stafford had fallen out with pretty much everybody and with the exception of the future 7th Duke of Norfolk the whole peerage found him guilty.

he had returned to England full time by 1683 and sold much of his library and art collections to various institutes including John Evelyn.

He died in 1684.

c1652 he had married Lady Anne Someret, daughter of Edward Somerset, 2nd Marquess of Worcester and Elizabeth Dormer. They had two children. She died in 1662.

It is his second wife who is remembered here, and who caused something of an outrage.

Jane Bickerton, Duchess of Norfolk was born 1644 to Anne Hester and Robert Bickerton, Gentleman of the Wine Cellar to king Charles II.

She met Howard, probably at court and quickly became his mistress. When Lady Anne died in 1662 they started living together, but did not marry until 1677 when he succeeded to the Dukedom. His children were not happy and protested greatly to the situation.

They had four sons and three daughters.

she was not well regarded by society either as demonstrated in the diary of John Evelyn, who having business with the Duke in buying some of his drawings by Raphael noted "...He answered me that he would part with and sell anything for money but his wife the Duchess who stood near him; and I though with myself that if I were in his condition she should be the first thing that I would be glad to part with."

When the Duke died she married Thomas Maxwell and died on 28 August 1693.

 

- Henry 7th Duke + 1701

Henry Howard, 7th Duke of Norfolk was born II January 1655 the son of the above 6th Duke and Lady Anne Somerset. He did not speak to his father after he married Jane.

1678 he was summoned to Parliament as Baron Mowbray.

20 June 1685 he was appointed Colonel of the Suffolk Regiment and the same year he was created Knight of the Garter.

1688 he was on bad terms with James II over the repel of the Test Act and decided to stay in France for a few months returning in time for the Glorious Revolution.

1689 he was a Privy Councillor under William and Mary.

He had faired well politically mainly because, although the family was Roman Catholic, he had outwardly conformed to the Anglican Church.

He died the 2 April 1701.

he had married Mary Mordaunt, daughter of 2nd Earl of Peterborough but they divorced in 1700 without children, and so he was succeeded by his nephew.

 

- Thomas 8th Duke 1732

Thomas Howard, 8th Duke of Norfolk was born the 11 December 1683 to Lord Thomas Howard of Worksop and Mary Elizabeth Savile.

Upon his uncles death he became Duke and 17th Baron Furnivall.

29 May 1709 he married Maria Shireburn of Stanyhurst Hall when she was 16 with a fortune of £30,000.

29 October 1722 he was arrested under suspicion of involvement in a Jacobite plot and was imprisoned in the Tower of London. his wife was refused permission to visit but persuaded the Earl of Carlisle to act as surety for his bail in May 1723. There marriage was an unhappy one as she was a staunch catholic and Jacobite supporter who left her husband when he "truckles to the usurper".

1729-30 he was appointed Grand Master of the Masonic Grand Lodge of England.

He died childless aged 49 on the 23 December 1732.

 

- Edward 9th duke + 1777 and Duchess Mary + 1773

Edward Howard, 9th Duke of Norfolk was born 5 June 1686 the son of Lord Thomas Howard and Elizabeth Savile.

1732 became Duke after the death of his brother.

He was Earl Marshal and died 20 September 1777.

he married on 26 November 1727 Mary Blount. born 1712 to Edward Blount and Anne Guise, an exiled Roman Catholic family, and as such she spent much of her early life in Europe.

They were a socially active couple and always eager to express their support for the protestant monarchy of George II.

The Duchess was considered intelligent and assertive, referred to by Horace of Walpole as "my Lord Duchess".

Her love for art gave rise to the restoration of Norfolk House in 1755, especially noted is the music room, designed in the continental style for playing cards and receptions but not music.

1761 her attention moved to Worksop Manor, practically ruined after a fire, she restored it to glory and gave it to Thomas their hier as they had no children.

She is reputed to have asked Captain Cook to name an island after her. he had not heard that she had died when he named Norfolk island in 1773.

 

- Catherine Duchess, widow of the 10th Duke + 1784

Catherine Brockholes was born 1724 the daughter of John Brockholes. She married Charles Howard, later 10th Duke of Norfolk on the 8 November 1739.

1777 she became Duchess. They had two children and she died in 1784.

 

- Bernard 12th Duke + 1842

Bernard Edward Howard was born 21 November 1765 the son of Henry Howard and Juliana Molyneux.

1815 he became the 12th Duke.

1834 he was invested in the Order of the Garter.

23 April 1789 he married lady Elizabeth Belasyse daughter of 2nd Earl of Fauconby, but they divorced in 1794.

He died 16 March 1842.

 

- Henry Charles 13th Duke + 1856 and Duchess Charlotte + 1870

Henry Howard was born 12 August 1791 the son of Bernard Edward Howard, 12th Duke of Norfolk and Lady Elizabeth Belasyse.

1815-42 Earl of Surrey.

4 May 1829 selected MP for Horsham. He was the first Roman Catholic to take his seat.

1832-41 MP for West Sussex.

1837 sworn to the Privy Council and 1837-41 under Lord Melbourne served as Treasurer of the Household and Captain of the Yeoman of the Guard in July - August 1841.

1842 became Duke of Norfolk.

1846 made Master of the Horse until 1852.

1853-4 Lord Steward of the Household.

1848 made a Knight of the Garter.

18 February 1886 he died.

 

On 27 December 1814 he had married Charlotte Sophia Fitzalan-Howard. She was baptised 9 July 1788 the daughter of the 1st Duke of Sutherland and Elizabeth Gordon.

They had five children together.

The Duchess was famous for her 166 piece collection of songs and piano pieces that she had translated into five languages between 1811 and 1823. it included works from Rousseau, Gay, Mozart, Arnold, Arne and Handel.

She died 7 July 1870.

 

A small team of FWS volunteers worked with Mount Eagle Elementary School staff in Alexandria, VA to plant a pollinator garden on the school grounds. The school is located in an urban setting and participation in this project supports FWS' priority to engage children in the outdoors. On Monday, April 8, 2013, a small team prepared the garden by removing sod, adding manure with lime and leaf mulch, and rotor-tilling. On Saturday, April 20, 2013 the school invited the students, their parents, and the community to help plant the garden. FWS staff donated native plants from their own gardens and brought equipment from home to complete the project both days.

Planting a Pollinator Garden: consider the following when choosing plants for your garden:

Choose plants that flower at different times of the year to provide nectar and pollen sources throughout the growing season. Plant in clumps, rather than single plants, to better attract pollinators. Provide a variety of flower colors and shapes to attract different pollinators.

Whenever possible, choose native plants.

www.fws.gov/pollinators/

Photo by Robert H. Pos/USFWS.

A small team of FWS volunteers worked with Mount Eagle Elementary School staff in Alexandria, VA to plant a pollinator garden on the school grounds. The school is located in an urban setting and participation in this project supports FWS' priority to engage children in the outdoors. On Monday, April 8, 2013, a small team prepared the garden by removing sod, adding manure with lime and leaf mulch, and rotor-tilling. On Saturday, April 20, 2013 the school invited the students, their parents, and the community to help plant the garden. FWS staff donated native plants from their own gardens and brought equipment from home to complete the project both days.

Planting a Pollinator Garden: consider the following when choosing plants for your garden:

Choose plants that flower at different times of the year to provide nectar and pollen sources throughout the growing season. Plant in clumps, rather than single plants, to better attract pollinators. Provide a variety of flower colors and shapes to attract different pollinators.

Whenever possible, choose native plants.

www.fws.gov/pollinators/

Photo by Robert H. Pos/USFWS.

St Margaret's Church is in Main Street, Hornby, Lancashire, England. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building. It is an active Anglican parish church in the diocese of Blackburn, the archdeaconry of Lancaster and the deanery of Tunstall. Its benefice is combined with those of St Michael, Whittington, St John, Arkholme, and St John, Gressingham.

 

A church was on the site in 1338.

 

The oldest part of the current church is the tower, which was built by Sir Edward Stanley, Lord Mounteagle, in 1514. Lord Mounteagle also arranged for the rebuilding of the chancel but this was incomplete when he died in 1524.

 

In 1817 the old nave was demolished and replaced by a new nave. In 1888–89 a Victorian restoration was carried out by the Lancaster architects Paley, Austin and Paley. The nave was largely rebuilt, arcades and a clerestory were inserted, the church was reroofed and refloored, the west gallery was removed, the box pews were replaced by modern seating, the vestry was converted into an organ chamber, and a new vestry was built; this was done at an estimated cost of £3,000 (equivalent to £360,000 in 2021).

 

A stained glass window from 1908 commemorates St Cecilia, gifted by survivors of William Henry Foster, as inscribed in the dedication. Unusually, it shows lady's slipper orchids (Cypripedium calceolus) at her feet.

 

The church is built in sandstone ashlar and its plan consists of a west tower, a nave and chancel under a continuous roof with a clearstory, and north and south aisles. The tower has three stages and is octagonal with the two upper stages being set diagonally to the base. Its parapet is embattled with pinnacles. The middle stage has a clock and a plaque carved with the Mounteagle arms. The nave and aisles have embattled parapets. At the east end is a semi-octagonal apse.

 

In the church is a monument to Dr Lingard, the Roman Catholic priest from St Mary's Church, Hornby, who died in 1851. Also in the church are two fragments of Anglo-Saxon crosses. The organ was built by Abbott and Smith and moved to St Margaret's from Hornby Castle in 1899. It was renovated by Ainscough around 1950 and restored by Harrison & Harrison in 1986. There is a ring of eight bells. Six of these were cast by Abel Rudhall in 1761 and the other two by Mears and Stainbank of the Whitechapel Bell Foundry in 1922. The parish register of baptisms begins in 1742 and that of burials in 1763.

 

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Margaret%27s_Church,_Hornby

A small team of FWS volunteers worked with Mount Eagle Elementary School staff in Alexandria, VA to plant a pollinator garden on the school grounds. The school is located in an urban setting and participation in this project supports FWS' priority to engage children in the outdoors. On Monday, April 8, 2013, a small team prepared the garden by removing sod, adding manure with lime and leaf mulch, and rotor-tilling. On Saturday, April 20, 2013 the school invited the students, their parents, and the community to help plant the garden. FWS staff donated native plants from their own gardens and brought equipment from home to complete the project both days.

Planting a Pollinator Garden: consider the following when choosing plants for your garden:

Choose plants that flower at different times of the year to provide nectar and pollen sources throughout the growing season. Plant in clumps, rather than single plants, to better attract pollinators. Provide a variety of flower colors and shapes to attract different pollinators.

Whenever possible, choose native plants.

www.fws.gov/pollinators/

Photo by Robert H. Pos/USFWS.

A small team of FWS volunteers worked with Mount Eagle Elementary School staff in Alexandria, VA to plant a pollinator garden on the school grounds. The school is located in an urban setting and participation in this project supports FWS' priority to engage children in the outdoors. On Monday, April 8, 2013, a small team prepared the garden by removing sod, adding manure with lime and leaf mulch, and rotor-tilling. On Saturday, April 20, 2013 the school invited the students, their parents, and the community to help plant the garden. FWS staff donated native plants from their own gardens and brought equipment from home to complete the project both days.

Planting a Pollinator Garden: consider the following when choosing plants for your garden:

Choose plants that flower at different times of the year to provide nectar and pollen sources throughout the growing season. Plant in clumps, rather than single plants, to better attract pollinators. Provide a variety of flower colors and shapes to attract different pollinators.

Whenever possible, choose native plants.

www.fws.gov/pollinators/

Photo by Robert H. Pos/USFWS.

Facing White Glen, Lagmore Avenue, West Belfast

Pollinators, such as most bees and some birds, bats, and other insects, play a crucial role in flowering plant reproduction and in the production of most fruits and vegetables. Without the assistance of pollinators, most plants cannot produce fruits and seeds. The fruits and seeds of flowering plants are an important food source for people and wildlife. A recent study of the status of pollinators in North America by the National Academy of Sciences found that populations of honey bees (which are not native to North America) and some wild pollinators are declining. Declines in wild pollinators may be a result of habitat loss and degradation, while declines in managed bees is linked to disease (introduced parasites and pathogens). Plant a Pollinator Garden: consider the following when choosing plants for your garden:

Choose plants that flower at different times of the year to provide nectar and pollen sources throughout the growing season.

Plant in clumps, rather than single plants, to better attract pollinators.

Provide a variety of flower colors and shapes to attract different pollinators.

Whenever possible, choose native plants.

www.fws.gov/pollinators/

Photo by Robert H. Pos/USFWS.

Hard-working animals help pollinate over 75% of our flowering plants, and nearly 75% of our crops. Often we may not notice the hummingbirds, bats, bees, beetles, butterflies, and flies that carry pollen from one plant to another as they collect nectar. Yet without them, wildlife would have fewer nutritious berries and seeds, and we would miss many fruits, vegetables, and nuts, like blueberries, squash, and almonds . . . not to mention chocolate and coffee, all of which depend on pollinators.

Plant a Pollinator Garden: consider the following when choosing plants for your garden:

Choose plants that flower at different times of the year to provide nectar and pollen sources throughout the growing season.

Plant in clumps, rather than single plants, to better attract pollinators.

Provide a variety of flower colors and shapes to attract different pollinators.

Whenever possible, choose native plants.

 

www.fws.gov/pollinators/

Photo by Robert H. Pos/USFWS.

London Road, Royston, Hertfordshire (the A10).

The house with the white overhanging upper storey is "Whitehall - The home of Lord Mounteagle who alerted King James I to the Gunpowder Plot 1605".

James I had a hunting lodge in the town having first discovered the wealth of game (notably "stout" hare) to be had in the area on his journey south to take the throne of England.

Incidentally, James I prohibited the building of jettied upper storeys as a fire risk but not the demolition of those already existing.

  

A gull perches above a cliff along the south coast of the Dingle Peninsula (County Kerry, in southwestern Ireland) and Dingle Bay, on an afternoon of shifting sun and cloud at the end of September.

 

This spot is between the archaeological site complex at Fahan-Dunbeg and the tip of the peninsula at Slea Head, below Mount Eagle.

 

The Dingle Peninsula is the northernmost of the five peninsulas of southwestern Ireland that stick out like fingers into the Atlantic Ocean. Its name in Irish is Corca Dhuibhne, sometimes Anglicised as Corkaguiny. The Irish names for Fahan and Dunbeg are Fán and Dún Beag respectively, while Slea Head is Ceann Sléibhe, Mount Eagle is Sliabh an Iolair, and Dingle Bay is Bá an Daingin.

 

(Irish names from The Rough Guide to Ireland, by Paul Gray and Geoff Wallis (10th edition 2011), p. 304, 308-309, and the Dún Beag Visitor Centre website (viewed 30 November 2014); "Corkaguiny" alternative from Blue Guide Ireland, by Brian Lalor (8th edition, 1998), p. 276.)

 

[Dingle south coast Glanfahan cliffs gull water 2013 sep 30 c; IMG_4781]

Pollinators need your help! There is increasing evidence that many pollinators are in decline. However, there are some simple things you can do at home to encourage pollinator diversity and abundance.

 

1) Plant a Pollinator Garden

2) Build a Bee Block

3) Avoid or Limit Pesticide Use

 

www.fws.gov/pollinators/PollinatorPages/YourHelp.html#garden

Photo by Robert H. Pos/USFWS.

The Great Blasket Island as seen from Béal Atha, or as I fondly call it "the Pebble Beach" as seen during twilight. In this same album I've got a shot from around noon. In the background in another of the Blasket Islands, An Tiaracht, the piramid shape on the horizon. And in the foreground on the right is a very flat Island, called Beiginis

Yellow Field, Pelham, TN

 

I drove by this stunning yellow field on my way up to Indiana on Thursday. I exited the interstate, turned around, went back, crossed the medium and then pulled over to the side so I could shoot some photographs.

 

I'm not sure if its a weed, wildflower or mustard, but whatever it is, its beautiful. You can see the brown corn stalks from last season and I like the depth between the green trees in the middle and the blue mountain range in the background. Definitely worth a few minutes and miles to go back and get this one. Enjoy!

Arundel Cathedral, Arundel, Sussex

 

Anne Dacre was born 21 March 1557 the eldest daughter of Thomas Dacre, 4th Baron Dacre of Gilsland and Elizabeth Leyburne of Cumbria.

In 1567 her father died and her mother married Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk. in September of that year her mother died and Anne became the ward of the Duke of Norfolk.

However, Anne and her siblings were educated by their grandmother Lady Mounteagle. As such she was brought up as a devout catholic.

1569 it was arranged that Anne would marry her stepbrother Philip Howard. Since they were both so young they were seperated and the ceremony was performed again two years later.

Initially they did not get one, and saw very little of each other until the 1580s when she became the Duchess of Arundel.

They moved houses several times including Audley End, Arundel House London, Charterhouse and Howard House before settling at Arundel Castle where she officially converted to Catholicism in 1582. As a result she was placed under house arrest in the home of Sir Thomas Shirley for a whole year, and where she gave birth to he daughter Elizabeth in 1583.

She reunited with her husband in 1584, who following his wife's example also converted and was himself placed under house arrest, from which he attempted to escape and leave the country but was caught and thrown in the Tower. As a result he never met his only son, Thomas and never saw his wife again, dying ten years later still confined on 19 October 1595.

As a widow Anne was left in a dreadful situation as all his possessions were withheld from her. She was forced to sell her own lands to secure an income and pay off his debts. After many years she was able to claw back what was rightfully hers by inheritance.

When Philip died she took a vow of chastity and never remarried, eventually moving back to Carlisle. She spent her days in church and religious observances.

She was also a great author compiling letters, poems and journals. She wrote the accounts of her life and that of her husband, and the torment they suffered.

She died of natural causes aged 73 on 19 April 1630. She was buried in the Fitzalan Chapel at Arundel Castle.

   

Mount Eagle, Co. Kerry, Ireland

Eagle Mountain, Dingle Peninsula, Co. Kerry, Ireland

Mount Eagle, Dingle Peninsula, Co. Kerry, Ireland

Eagle Mountain, Dingle Peninsula, Co. Kerry, Ireland

On July 4, 1857, the University of the South was established on Mounteagle Mountain by Episcopalian bishop Leonidas Polk, who envisioned a regional denominational "city on the hill" equivalent to Oxford. Though consecrated in 1860, the University barely survived the American Civil War. Polk, who joined the Confederate Army, was killed in 1864 and the year before, Union troops destroyed most of the fledgling construction. In 1866 after the war, construction resumed, and classes began in 1868, but the school, its regional contributory base devastated by the destruction of the Antebellum system, continued to struggle. Finally Rt. Rev. Charles Todd Quintard traveled to the United Kingdom and managed to receive financial support from members of the Church of England, allowing the school to be completed. The university was consequently designed in the Cambridge/Oxford style, and traditionally students wore their academic gowns while attending classes. The school is now known as Sewanee: the University of the South after a controversial name change in the 2000s and is one of the best and strangely is one of the most open liberal arts schools in the region.

Sewanee: University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee

This beautiful home is situated behind the Amish Hippie shop.

 

Mount Eagle as seen from just outside the gate of the visitor's Centre

Loch Shliabh an Iolair o gopa'r mynydd.

Outdoor Chapel on Mounteagle Mountain Tennessee. Beersheba Assembly.

...the Fifth of November!

This blue plaque adorns the wall of one of the many old houses in Royston, Hertfordshire.

James I had a hunting lodge in the town, having first discovered the wealth of game (notably "stout" hare) to be had in the area on his journey south to take the throne of England.

This is where we stopped for a lunch break

 

Gleann Fán (Glanfahan)

 

Cathair an Dá Dhoras (Caheradadurras)

Known locally as Cathair Sayers

 

Outside of large conjoined triple Clocháin

 

View of Dingle Bay

 

Cuppage's Corca Dhuibhne - Dingle Peninsula Archaeological Survey: 1284 - Fig. 232

 

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