County Views.130
Mountains.30
Village Views.70
Signs of the City.80
Anyone curious about important episodes in the history of Ireland’s long colonization by England could start with the 1607 event commemorated in the banner at the top right of this photo, the flight of the earls. This is is the lovely town center of Donegal (which for purposes of blog categorization I’ve decided is a very small city). Below are all the other photos from Donegal town itself, including a stained glass window from a church next to the castle which I believe would have been the seat of one of the two earls who departed in that French ship in 1607. Donegal is the north-westernmost county in Ireland. Historically one of the “Ulster Plantation” counties, it was not among the six counties that since 1923 have been the Irish portion of that neighboring nation-state, the “United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.” This visit brought home for me just how very colonized Ireland was for how very long, beginning at a time when the European powers hadn’t (yet) gotten back to emulating the Romans and forcibly taking large-scale control of large territories far from home.
Urban Garden.190
Coasting.90
Assaranca (Eas a’ Ranca) Waterfall at the top; Maghera Beach at sundown just above; below a gallery with one or two shots from Glengesh Viewing Point and more of both the waterfall and the beach…and at the end, a late-afternoon-sun photos of the stunning back-road countryside we traveled through to get from Glengesh to Asaranca & Maghera.
Coasting.89
Yes, we’ve shown you this lighthouse in an earlier post :-). It’s St John’s Point Lighthouse, situated at the end of a long finger of a peninsula which drops south of the main arm of a wider and bigger peninsula which forms the north shore of a bay at the base of which sits the city of Donegal, aka Dún na nGall in Irish. To the south across the water from St John’s Point sits Mullaghmore, in County Sligo, and at the west end of the main stem of this particular part of Donegal rise the cliffs of Sliabh Liag. whose rainbow laden photos saw out 2023 on our blog.
Urban Canals.159
Urban Garden.189
City Views.219
Just about all my remaining photos from KL. As this morning’s post of winter sunlight on grass seed-heads in my neighborhood last Friday showed, I’m still getting out when there’s a bit of sun and slowly adding 2024 pics as well…but we will soon take a break, I think, once I just get more of the 2023 backlog splashed here on the blog.
County Views.129
Urban Entrances.119
Ah, Royalty.19
(so much world, so little time....) 