Coolasnaghta

For the artic like week that’s in it, this photo is of a place called Coolasnaghta in Co.Carlow. You’ll pass above this valley if you take the narrow ‘Nine Stones Road’ from the Corraby Gap. It is of course marked on our 1:25,000 scale map Blackstairs & Mount Leinster published a few months ago.

The Irish form of this name is taken as Cúl a’ tSneachta, where cúl is the corner or back of a valley and sneachta is of course meaning snow. The ‘snowy corner’. The valley is north facing and sheltered from the winter sun so holds the snow that bit longer than elsewhere.

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