Cow & Calf Rock
Thanks to map user Paul O’Callaghan for sending on this photo of the Cow & Calf Rock located in Upper Glenasmole in the Dublin Mountains. This large granite boulder is…
Placenames & Heritage Notes
Sitka Spruce
Sitka Spruce as a tree species gets a bad rap in Ireland. Making up c 45% of commercial plantations and grown sometimes as near monocultures – various labels are put…
School Mass Paths
This photo taken 2008 is of a footbridge across the Kilbride or Brittas River at Manor Kilbride in Co.Wicklow. It’s part of an old school / mass / general shortcut…
Powerscourt Deer Fence
The photo here is taken at the Water Gates above Powerscourt Waterfall in Co.Wicklow. This was one of the gates through extensive six foot deer fencing that surrounded Powerscourt Deerpark…
Science Room & Notes
Charles Thompson Day 6
This is the final photo relating to Charles Thompson in this wee series. It is I think the science / chemistry room in Mountjoy School where he taught and which…
Stony Top Lough Dan
Charles Thompson Day 5
The last hillwalking photo from Charles Thompson is a panorama taken from Stony Top or Cleevaun East looking east towards Lough Dan & Cloghoge Mountain. Note the almost complete absence…
Coffin Stone & Alps 1914
Charles Thompson Day 4
Today’s Charles Thompson images are the Coffin Stone on the western flanks of Djouce – note the old posts of a Powerscourt deer fence running behind. You can still find…
Mullaghcleevaun 1915, Maulin
Charles Thompson Day 3
Charles Thompson group on the summit of Mullaghcleevaun on 25th April 1915. It’s sobering to reflect that elsewhere in Europe on that day, Irishmen from the Dublin & Munster Fusiliers…
Djouce 1940s
Charles Thompson Day 2
Today’s Charles Thompson image is from Djouce, a very popular and much photographed hill in east Wicklow. The chaps are having a wee dram at the summit tor. Note the…
Charles Thompson Week
There’s been a considerable uptake of interest in hillwalking in recent years and social media is full of snaps and photos of people’s trips. But it’s not a new activity…