Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Hart of Ireland Tour Photos - September 2010


Round tower at Glendalough, Co. Wicklow




Kevin's Kitchen, Glendalough, Co. Wicklow


Hawthorn berries at Glendalough, Co. Wicklow


Taking the cure from a bullaun stone at the "Meeting of the Waters," the rivers Avoca and Avonmore


Music night at the Teachers' Club in Dublin with Jock Burns, concertina; John Kelly, fiddle; and Pat Good, guitar and vocals


Traditional musicians Jock Burns, John Kelly, Jimmy Kelly, Brian McCarthy


Death mask of Jonathan Swift, dean of Saint Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, and author of Gulliver's Travels and A Modest Proposal 
Neolithic burial mounds at Knowth, part of the ancient Brú na Bóinne complex along the Boyne River


Kerbstone at Knowth


From the slopes of Ceide Fields, Co. Mayo, looking out to sea -- part of 5,000-year-old complex of field enclosures


The 4,300-year-old Scots pine tree that dominates the center of the building at Ceide Fields


Harvest knot made from wheat at the Museum of Country Life, outside Castlebar, Co. Mayo


Famine memorial coffin ship, Murrisk, Co. Mayo


Fairy tree, Killary Harbor, Co. Galway


Aunt Betty in the doorway of the old cottage at Rathbaun Farm, Ardrahan, Co. Galway


Window of the old cottage at Rathbaun Farm, Ardrahan, Co. Galway


The Cliffs of Moher, Co. Clare


Statuary inside the grotto at Saint Bridget's Well, near Liscannor, Co. Clare


Sile-na-gig at the ruined church of Kilnaboy, Co. Clare


Blackthorn berries on the path to Dun Aengus, Inishmore, Co. Galway


Flower on the path to Dun Aengus, Inishmore, Co. Galway -- can anyone identify this? Last photo I took before falling and breaking my shoulder!


Romanesque doorway at 12th-century Clonfert Cathedral, Clonfert, Co. Galway


Detail from the Romanesque doorway at Clonfert Cathedral, Clonfert, Co. Galway


Detail from the Romanesque doorway at Clonfert Cathedral, Clonfert, Co. Galway


A high cross from the monastery at Clonmacnoise, Co. Offaly


Looking through the window at Clonmacnoise, Co. Offaly