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man ive been posting alot lately. sick of me yet? saturday was the first opertunity to go use my new lens during daylight, which over here means muggy gray. so i decided to go find ballyedmonduff wedge tomb, known locally as the giants grave. turns out its actually right beside a public golf course that i played with my dad on once (by the way i do ( Read more... )

Also known as brennanstown dolmen. but glendruid sounds way cooler. this morning was the vernal equinox which is if your into that type of thing is heralded in at Loughcrew. where the sun rises and shines down the passage of the alligned tomb and illuminates the carved stone at the back of the chamber. i was torn between going to this for sunrise ( Read more... )

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went down to loughcrew the othe3r day to see this massive complex of tombs on top of a bloody high hill that made my legs hurt. unfortunatly tthe wind was stronger than a JCB on steroids so the shots were a bit wonky.


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ok. as youve probably seen i have a bit of thing for the old building stuff.

so i thought id do a wee post about the hill of tara.

For those of you not in the know, the hill of tara was the political capital of ireland with varying significance untill the 12th century. the complexity of its history is too long to go into here without boring the shit ( Read more... )

heres one or two from more weekend adventures. on sunday i poppd down the road to see if i could find the pipers stone stone circle in Athgreany.

thankfull the iron age builders had the good sense to build it 50 meters from the motorway and put up some handy signposts. so i uped the hill and found it in good condition and, even more thankfully, ( Read more... )