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Old homestead in the Galty Mountains
© goatee, Mar 2019
Camera used: HUAWEI POT-LX1
Date taken: 21st March 2019
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My forebears came from just such places in Ireland, loads of kids crammed in together, everybody struggling desperately to survive.
Mick Ward - 02/Apr/19
Aye, hard times were endured for sure. Stories buried deep.
goatee - 02/Apr/19
If those mossy stones could talk, what tales they'd have to tell!
Mick Ward - 02/Apr/19
My in-laws country, often rambled up from the Glen of Aherlow into the hills, lots of sad such structures.
Stephen R Young - 02/Apr/19
Back in the 1990s, Gerry Moss wrote the most marvellous essay, 'Playbank', about making climbing visits to the Cuilcaghs over many years and witnessing the sad demise of a local farm. There was a phrase, something like 'the silence of untended fields', which was utterly heartbreaking. Life goes on - in other ways, other forms...
Mick Ward - 03/Apr/19
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