Category Archives: travel

Loughcrew…

Posted on November 5, 2022 by Stuart France

County Meath, Friday, 29th July 2022… *** *** The conception merely glimpsed in the lowlands of Carrowmore is here, finally, made manifest. *** *** And what a conception! *** *** It is wrapped about with something of the awe which … Continue reading →

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Feichin at Fore…

Posted on November 4, 2022 by Stuart France

County Westmeath, Friday, 29th July 2022… *** *** That is St Feichin to you! * Some of the Irish saints are less holy men and more your itinerant geomancers, which some might argue is equally holy but in a different … Continue reading →

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And Drift…

Posted on November 2, 2022 by Stuart France

County Westmeath, Thursday, 28th July 2022… *** ‘Place of the ford of Luan’ *** Athlone on the Shannon. * It did not always look like this! *** *** For one thing, it used to be a lot greyer. *** *** … Continue reading →

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The Burren: Cashel to Castle…

Posted on November 1, 2022 by Stuart France

County Clare, Wednesday, 27th July 2022… *** *** While the ideal spreads harmony from a central sun, or moon, or star. ***   Cahermore *** The dystopia sucks everything into the black, black hole of an abyss. *** *** Centripetal … Continue reading →

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The Burren: Poulnabrone Dolmen…

Posted on October 31, 2022 by Stuart France

County Clare, Wednesday, 27th July 2022… *** *** By the time we came across this fellow  it had started raining in good earnest. *** ‘A dark sorrowful place’ *** Perhaps the well hag had taken against our pound coin? *** … Continue reading →

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The Burren: ‘Wedge Tomb’…

Posted on October 30, 2022 by Stuart France

County Clare, Wednesday, 27th July 2022… *** *** The presence of Skull Rock is probably responsible for the number of ‘tombs’ in the field across the track, which is now a road, of which there are, reputedly, a goodly number. … Continue reading →

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The Burren: Skull Rock…

Posted on October 29, 2022 by Stuart France

County Clare, Wednesday, 27th July 2022… *** *** A glacial erratic deposited in a ‘stony place’. *** *** The ancients would have venerated such a stone and may well have adapted it for symbolic purposes. *** *** The limestone ‘shelving’ … Continue reading →

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Killinaboy…

Posted on October 28, 2022 by Stuart France

County Clare, Wednesday, 27th July 2022… *** *** The ruined church at Killinaboy had a number of surprises in store for us. * The stump of a round tower, above, showed only a few signs of polygonal walling which is … Continue reading →

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Blame the heather….

Posted on October 16, 2022 by Sue Vincent

*** “… See you soon…Stay in the car!” He must have known the futility of that message as it winged its way through the ether…I could hear the sighs of despair… I had texted my current location and “… the … Continue reading →

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The Stones of Ballynoe…

Posted on September 19, 2022 by Stuart France

County Down, Thursday, 16th June, 2022… *** *** We came across a number of green wyrm-holes in Cornwall and they often spat us out in wondrous locations… *** *** The same magic appears to hold sway here too! *** *** … Continue reading →

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