Marble City Garden
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Made a garden in Kilkenny in the pandemic. Mostly pics of that and planty things, plus some Ireland, some travel.
This is such a lovely dolmen! Good walks through the woods and I've the hill above too.
December 5, 2025 at 4:25 PM
This is such a lovely dolmen! Good walks through the woods and I've the hill above too.
Yeah, bagpipes played as if to really the troops (like these), great. But to me bagpipes playing 'laments' and the like make opera sound understated and mating cats sound like Mozart. (Not mad about Mozart either...)
November 5, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Yeah, bagpipes played as if to really the troops (like these), great. But to me bagpipes playing 'laments' and the like make opera sound understated and mating cats sound like Mozart. (Not mad about Mozart either...)
That's such a lovely little visitor centre.
October 18, 2025 at 11:46 AM
That's such a lovely little visitor centre.
Needs more doodle, that's pure golden behaviour 😁
October 8, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Needs more doodle, that's pure golden behaviour 😁
Superb at sunset, despite being hemmed in ❤️
October 5, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Superb at sunset, despite being hemmed in ❤️
Wow, that's impressively 19th century! Like those old Colenel Blimp types thinking they "brought trains to India", rather than dragged it headfirst down the league table of national economics.
October 4, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Wow, that's impressively 19th century! Like those old Colenel Blimp types thinking they "brought trains to India", rather than dragged it headfirst down the league table of national economics.
Funny, it immediately and totally strikes me as the opposite! Plantation calls to mind Sitka, alien rows all put in the ground in one go, whereas colonisation is something plants do to an area gradually.
October 3, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Funny, it immediately and totally strikes me as the opposite! Plantation calls to mind Sitka, alien rows all put in the ground in one go, whereas colonisation is something plants do to an area gradually.
Always Kilmalkedar. Such a wonderful site in general, that valley corner.
September 28, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Always Kilmalkedar. Such a wonderful site in general, that valley corner.
Tried to visit there twice, locked both times 😢 Good thing I was en route to somewhere else.
September 8, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Tried to visit there twice, locked both times 😢 Good thing I was en route to somewhere else.
...and she shows the Molly Malone statue problem is nothing new.
September 3, 2025 at 9:32 AM
...and she shows the Molly Malone statue problem is nothing new.
Down there today on Trá na mBo. With a little cave where the running water is a dead giveaway for the copper!
August 31, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Down there today on Trá na mBo. With a little cave where the running water is a dead giveaway for the copper!
Since every knows where the future HAS to be, trying to keep up with the pack in getting there has to be the best policy long term anyway. Otherwise everyone else gets stuck the new industries, methods, and benefits and we're left with the shitty old stuff.
August 17, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Since every knows where the future HAS to be, trying to keep up with the pack in getting there has to be the best policy long term anyway. Otherwise everyone else gets stuck the new industries, methods, and benefits and we're left with the shitty old stuff.
Cahir because it would be such a relief to get to it, having made it past that killing yard with the portcullis, the loops, and the base batter.
August 15, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Cahir because it would be such a relief to get to it, having made it past that killing yard with the portcullis, the loops, and the base batter.
Impressive to circumnavigate but no entry to the interior when we visited, which felt like a shame, it looks a great space to stand in even if nothing remains. Can't see why it would be restricted?
July 14, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Impressive to circumnavigate but no entry to the interior when we visited, which felt like a shame, it looks a great space to stand in even if nothing remains. Can't see why it would be restricted?
Argh. Sympathies. Hope it passes fairly lightly, though I guess you must have been feeling something to take it.
July 1, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Argh. Sympathies. Hope it passes fairly lightly, though I guess you must have been feeling something to take it.
Works less well when the humidity is high though... Dreading the point where "wet bulb temperature" becomes a thing we all have to know about ☹️
July 1, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Works less well when the humidity is high though... Dreading the point where "wet bulb temperature" becomes a thing we all have to know about ☹️
My favourite place on the island, away from all the buses!
June 25, 2025 at 6:25 AM
My favourite place on the island, away from all the buses!
Like lace. We're going to need more street trees too.
June 25, 2025 at 6:24 AM
Like lace. We're going to need more street trees too.
LOVE this priory, couldn't believe I had it entirely to myself one day last summer. Stunning setting. Google has no idea how to get to it though, tried to send me up a lane on the other side of the river!
June 16, 2025 at 7:23 PM
LOVE this priory, couldn't believe I had it entirely to myself one day last summer. Stunning setting. Google has no idea how to get to it though, tried to send me up a lane on the other side of the river!
The sun sets pretty much on the peak of the pointy hill across the valley at Samhain. Given the oratory and bullaun too, I wonder if that made it feel special.
June 8, 2025 at 12:37 PM
The sun sets pretty much on the peak of the pointy hill across the valley at Samhain. Given the oratory and bullaun too, I wonder if that made it feel special.
Same, and when I go to see a fillum.
May 28, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Same, and when I go to see a fillum.
We did find an abandoned farm cottage ruin in the middle of the forest from when it was farmland 👍 Quite spooky!
May 23, 2025 at 6:15 AM
We did find an abandoned farm cottage ruin in the middle of the forest from when it was farmland 👍 Quite spooky!
These circles were SO badly signed when we visited, with a map showing the path up starting in the car park. Instead of a few metres east of the entrance, over a stile, which was hidden in lush summer growth. Three sets of visitors bushwhacking through the Sitka were led astray by that map 😂
May 22, 2025 at 2:13 PM
These circles were SO badly signed when we visited, with a map showing the path up starting in the car park. Instead of a few metres east of the entrance, over a stile, which was hidden in lush summer growth. Three sets of visitors bushwhacking through the Sitka were led astray by that map 😂