List of Images

The images on the North wall and the first on the main wall are of the passage tomb at Knockroe. This was found in the mid 1990's.

The middle image is of the mid winters sunrise just gone and the B&W is over the passage that is facing the setting sun of those days on the mid winter.

Anyone brought up in Ireland about my age caught the tail of the Victorian disbelief prevalent in schooling that anything existed of worth in Ireland before the Norman invasion.

Foggy Winter Road.

This is a new line. A rationalisation of roads that occurred in Ireland after the Workhouse system developed. This was little more than engineered slavery. Where the work was done for food.

Mountain Cottage.

This was typical of the type of farmhouse that was the target of economic rationalisation during the period of the land war and earlier. I waited for months to get the correct light here so that is returned that 'Cute' impression. And as truly lovely this house is, it is now one of the few such that birthed revolution. This cottage is near the place of a massacre. When in 1796 a beacon was lit and when the insurgents assembled they were slaughtered by the militias.

Derelict 1.

This is a building that is now at the very end of it's life. Soon it will get hit with a bulldozer and the stone reused in perhaps a farm roadway. This is typical of many such buildings that are now functionless with the changes in farm practice.

Slievenamon.

This mountain is the permanent backdrop to life in three counties. But for Tipperary it is iconic. Her profile seen by those who left 50-70 years earlier would draw the Kickham song unbidden. 'Alone; all alone; by a wave washed shore'.

WW1 Scene

I call this B&W a world war one scene. This is more my impression of the obliterated trees and the cold dark dankness of that place.

Derelict 2.

Death and decay. The people that lived here are gone and soon enough the building returns to it's natural state.

A wild Rose.

This is another beauty with an unusual past. These were collected and used in the rooms when people were waked. Of course the cultivated ones had been long used to mast the stench of death in the areas of Iran and Iraq. And later when they came to Europe, were used by those inflicted with a syphilis infection.