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Tag: Connemara

  • Photographing Aillebrack Rabbits

    Photographing Aillebrack Rabbits

    Rabbit Warrens Dot Aillebrack The land immediately behind the beaches in the townland of Aillebrack in Connemara, County Galway, Ireland is dotted with the scrapings created by rabbits as they construct a network of warrens in the sandy soil. Their territory extends back beyond the road to the Connemara Golf…

  • Weekend in Connemara

    We’ve just passed a very pleasant and relaxing weekend in Connemara, my favourite place in Ireland. Oscar Wilde described Connemara as “savage”, probably due to the rock-strewn rugged landscape that creates a real challenge for farmers to scrape a living. Of course, Connemara was part of the destination that Oliver…

  • Ballyconneely photo used by Go Ireland

    Go Ireland is the web site run by Bord Failte (Irish Tourist Board) to help visitors find places to stay and see in Ireland. They run regular photo competitions, one of which I entered in 2008 when we were living in the U.S.  I heard nothing back about the results…

  • Making salt from sea water

    An article in the Irish Times (http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/magazine/2010/0703/1224273550711.html) provoked a thought that we should take advantage of being close to the Atlantic Ocean and bring some salt water home to see if we could make some sea salt. I duly went down to the Coral Strand near Clifden and filled bottles…

  • Ailebrack

    Some folks from California arrived to visit us in Ireland and created the immediate question of “what to do”? As we live in Dublin, it’s an easy call to have them spend a day looking around the city but Dublin has become increasingly like other European cities over the last…