Wicklow West
Art O’Neill Challenge 2023
The now annual Art O’Neill Challenge takes place this January 13th. A challenge event journeying overnight from Dublin Castle to Glenmalure and commemorating the escape & flight of Art &…
Placenames & Heritage Notes
Beenoskee
Beenoskee is the highest hill in the central section of the Dingle peninsula and overlooks the Magharees. The name is generally understood now in Irish to be Binn os Gaoith,…
Brandon Air Crashes
There are four known air crashes on Brandon Mountain in Kerry that date to World War 2. The best known of these are the engine remains of a Luftwaffe Condor…
Kerry Placenames
Logainmneacha ó Chontae Chiarraí I’ve been working through the mapped and written placename material for Corca Dhuibhne, roughly the Dingle peninsula. There are multiple sources including OS fieldwork records, the…
Bullaun Stones
Bullaun Stones, often pronounced bull-yawn, are common enough field monuments found particularly along the east coast and hinterlands. Often of granite rock with a pronounced unnatural hole or depression in…
Brandon OS 25 Inch
Brandon OS 25 Inch This extraordinary piece of cartography comes from the Ordnance Survey 25 Inch or 1:2500 scale series compiled in the late 19th & early 20th century. It…
Baurtregaum ~ Barr Trí gCom
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…
German War Cemetery
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…
Irish Townlands
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…
Clonegal ~ Cluain na nGabhal
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…
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