Sunday, May 17, 2009

Bru na Boinne, 2009

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All the previous megalithic stuff, however interesting (to us), was mere prelude. Saturday we toured Bru na Boinne, the megalithic super-com...

A Day in the North: Giant's Causeway, Carrick-a-Rede, and beyond

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 The giant, Finn MacCool (how cool a name is that?), built the causeway to Scotland, to do battle with a giant there, or possibly to toss...
Saturday, May 16, 2009

Old Bushmill's

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Drinking is my sole spiritual experience these days, but I am at least ecumenical in my drinking. And so we had to visit the Old Bushmill...
Friday, May 15, 2009

Drumcliffe

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Drumcliff Church, north of Sligo High and very old cross Old stone in church narthex Church interior Church organ Yeats' and George'...
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Carremor Tombs and Drumcliffe

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Grand tomb at Carramor; a huge mound with inner courtyard and chambers Dolmen within the tomb Circle with dolmen, a few hundred feet away Mo...
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Ceide Fields and Dunbriste

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A totally duded-up Cooper S right there on the coast road; nobody home 6,000 year old stone wall at Ceide Fields Downpatrick Head and t...

Don't Pass Up the Mayo

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Our negotiations with shippers, brokers, agents, bankers, customs officials, and others seemingly at an end (thank you, Rebecca), we took th...
Thursday, May 14, 2009

Ascent of the Reek

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Croach Parick, about 2,500 feet; this is the mountain on which the saint did Lent, 441AD, also from which he expelled the serpents and other...

Aran Islands

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Our encampment on Galway Bay The Promenade, near Salthill, Galway Bay Dun Anghus, another iron-age, pre-Christian fortress, on Inismor, Aran...