I’ve been reading through the Schools Collection for the greater Dingle peninsula to see what placenames were recorded there in the 1930s. As usual with this collection, the amount of…

The Carlow Walking Festival takes place over the last weekend of the month – from 30th September to the 2nd October. There will be a variety of hillwalks and rambles…

The German War Cemetery is located in an old quarry near the Glencree Centre at the top of the Glencree valley in Co.Wicklow. If you’re passing by, it’s well worth…

The townland in rural Ireland is a core part of identity, it’s a form of local address and place. Townland, parish & county to some extent define people. There’s a…

EastWest Mapping compiles and publishes c8,500 square kilometres of good quality topographic mapping for selected parts of the Republic of Ireland. That is about 12% of the Republic and this…

This heron is catching small fish at the banks of a wide pool where the Slaney and Derry rivers meet. Swimming there in the hot weather last week was quite…

Contouring on recent EastWest Mapping maps is typically at a 5 metre interval and derived from digital terrain models supplied by Bluesky Ireland. You can think of these models like…

I came across this interesting & practical use of internet mapping there recently. It’s an unofficial kind of mapping layer passed around among Deliveroo riders in Dublin.So they have colour…

Last in this short series on weather maps & forecasts. To recap on previous:Air circulates (wind direction) in anticlockwise way around Low areas of pressure and in a clockwise way…

Have you ever been out on the hills in fairly mild wet, misty conditions to then experience a heavy belt of rain followed shortly by a sudden clearance to clearer,…