Kenny Travel and Taxi Service Kilkee, Co Clare

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Amazing light

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05/07/2020

Sunday lunch at O'Gradys on the Pier @ O'Gradys on the Pier Restaurant

24/06/2020

Hole with a view

12/05/2020

17/02/2019

Kenny Travel and Taxi Service Kilkee, Co Clare

24/11/2017

Wild Atlantic Way - Ireland

Wild Atlantic Way - Ireland

This is a video taken during our Motorcycle tour in august 2017

20/11/2017

Irish Wildlife Trust

Irish Wildlife Trust

Ten favourite forest walks in Ireland...

17/11/2017

Kilkee Ireland - the Country's Best Kept Secret - Bobo and ChiChi

Kilkee Ireland - the Country's Best Kept Secret - Bobo and ChiChi

Without a doubt, Ireland is famous for its dramatic cliffs and seascapes. Places like the Cliffs of Moher and the Ring of Kerry attract millions of visitors each year, and ... Read More

08/11/2017

Mythical Ireland

Mythical Ireland

Fourknocks is a small but very significant Neolithic monument in County Meath. It is one of my favourite ancient places. Don't forget to have a look at the video at the bottom of this page to give you some sense of the place.

Edit: A few people have asked where Fourknocks is located, so I've also added a Google map to the bottom of the page.

https://mythicalireland.com/ancient-sites/fourknocks-na-fuar-cnoic/

24/02/2017

Clare County Council

A chronological gallery of photographs of Kilkee from down through the past 150 years, courtesy of Clare County Library's wide ranging collection of photographs. For more see http://foto.clarelibrary.ie/fotoweb/Default.fwx

20/02/2017

George Karbus Photography

Winter Skies
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11/02/2017

Places to stay and visit in Clare

Another one of our stunning views. The amazing Cliffs of Moher. Seen from this vantage point, you'll witness the gorgeous skys, clear air and water. The only thing better is the hospitality of the people. Surely this year, West Clare is Calling You? ☘💚

Nature, Tradition & Hospitality: westclare.net

07/01/2017

Mythical Ireland

Red sky at Knowth.

11/12/2016

Mythical Ireland

Today is the second day of my new series of Newgrange photographs entitled 'The 12 days of Solstice". Today's image shows Newgrange in winter at around sunset. The sun has just disappeared below the near horizon, but its golden glow is still very much visible.

For more detail about this image, and the series, see my blog: http://blog.mythicalireland.com/2016/12/the-12-days-of-solstice-day-2-golden.html

05/12/2016

Emerald VIP Services

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05/12/2016

Mythical Ireland

It is known as the ‘Giant’s Load’ and, when you stand under the great capstone of Proleek Dolmen, it’s not difficult to see why. This huge boulder is reputed to weigh around 40 tonnes, yet it sits comfortably on top of three upright stones as if it was a sheet of paper and not a giant rock.

Legend says the stone was carried there by a Scottish giant called Parrah Boug McShagean, who is reputed to be buried nearby. Another tale says it was brought by a giant from a nearby mountain. Proleek is one of Ireland’s best-known examples of what archaeologists call a portal tomb or dolmen, and photographs of the monument are featured far and wide.

This is one I took in the summer of 2008, with some creative lighting.

10/11/2016

Mythical Ireland

The Hag's Cairn, known as Cairn T, on Slieve na Calliagh, Carnbane East, Loughcrew, Meath, Ireland. This 5,500-year-old cairn admits light from the rising sun on the equinoxes, which shines onto solar patterns on a stone in the very rear of its central chamber.

16/10/2016

Irish Medieval History

Irish Medieval History

Rathcroghan, the ancient kings and queens of Connacht were inaugurated.

10/10/2016

George Karbus Photography

Aileen's, Cliffs of Moher at 40 knots offshore wind and mad stormy conditions didnt stop Australian surfer Ryan Hipwood went for crazy close out wave. Photographed last spring during the filming "Who is JOB" for Red Bull

06/10/2016

You'll be dreaming of a trip to West Cork after seeing this video

You'll be dreaming of a trip to West Cork after seeing this video

Cork people will tell you there are few places better than west Cork and after watching this video, we're sure you'll agree.

04/09/2016

Stair na hÉireann/History of Ireland

Caring about what people think of you is useless. Most people don't even know what they think of themselves.

Dia daoibh ar maidin. Good morning from Stair na hÉireann - History of Ireland.

Dun Aengus, Aran Islands, Co Galway, Raymond Fogarty Photography

04/09/2016

Mythical Ireland

Newgrange after the storm ... the thunderstorms around the Boyne Valley this evening cleared off as night fell, and I caught the last of the storm clouds moving off as the twilight stars appeared.

15/08/2016

George Karbus Photography

Happy surfing days on west coast of Ireland

05/08/2016

George Karbus Photography

very lofty resident of Skellig Michael at lovely sunset in Kerry

17/07/2016

17 coastal views around Ireland that are just stunning

17 coastal views around Ireland that are just stunning

The checklist.

29/05/2016

Irish Medieval History

The placename with regards to Limerick city and county has two possible origins. 1. A transliteration of the Irish word Luimneach meaning abounding in bareness. 2. Hlymrekr a compound Viking word hlym ("noise") and rekr ("mighty") thus "mighty noise".

Luimneach originally referred to the general area along the banks of the Shannon Estuary, which was known as Loch Luimnigh. The original pre-Viking and Viking era settlement on King’s Island was known in the annals as Inis Sibhtonn and as Inis an Ghaill Duibh (the island of the black foreigners) from the Viking era.

The earliest record of Vikings at Limerick is in 845AD which is reported by the Annals of Ulster and there are intermittent reports of Vikings in the region later in the 9th century. Permanent settlement on the site of modern Limerick had begun around 922AD. In that year a Viking jarl or prince called Tomrair mac Ailchi—Thórir Helgason—led the Limerick fleet on raids along the River Shannon, from the lake of Lough Derg to the lake of Lough Ree, pillaging ecclesiastical settlements. Two years later, the Dublin Vikings led by Gofraid ua Ímair attacked Limerick but were driven off. The war between Dublin and Limerick continued until 937 when the Dubliners, now led by Gofraid's son Amlaíb, captured Limerick's king Amlaíb Cenncairech and destroyed his fleet.

The Annals of the Four Masters report in for the year 937: Amhlaeibh, son of Godfrey, lord of the foreigners, came at Lughnasadh [August] from Ath-cliath [Dublin] and carried off as prisoners Amhlaeibh Ceanncairech from Loch Ribh [Lough Ree] and the foreigners who were with him after breaking their ships.”

The next entry in the same annals report: “The foreigners of Athcliath [Dublin] left their fortress, and went to England.”

The traditional interpretation of these notices is that what Amlaíb mac Gofraid was actually doing was compelling or recruiting Amlaíb Cenncairech for his upcoming battle with Athelstan of England known to history as the Battle of Brunanburh.

More recent historians tend to interpret this as the culmination of an extended conflict between the Norse of Dublin and Limerick, dating from the arrival of Tomrair mac Ailchi in 922. They assume that the two Amlaíbs actually engaged in a battle and that mac Gofraid won a "decisive victory" over Cenncairech, effectively ending Limerick as a major player in Ireland for the next two or three decades.

The last Norse king was Ivar of Limerick, who facilitated the killing of the King of Munster Mathgamain mac Cennétig (the older brother of Brian Boru and the ancestor of the McMahon family). Possibly in retaliation for instigating the betrayal and killing of Mathgamain the year before, Ivar and two of his sons, Amlaíb/Olaf (Cuallaid or "Wild Dog") and Dubcenn ("Dark Head"), were killed, apparently after being surprised, by Brian Boru in 977 on Scattery Island. It marked the end of independent Norse Limerick, which lasted only a surprising fifty five years from the arrival of Tomrair mac Ailchi in 922.

Image: Verdant Place on King’s Island, Limerick as it is today. The cottages have been abandoned and the boarded up windows and doors have been painted to mimic real ones.

05/05/2016

A Flying visit to Bishop's Island, Co. Clare - Kilkee History

A Flying visit to Bishop's Island, Co. Clare - Kilkee History

There can only be a handful of lrish church sites that have not been visited and described, however briefly, over the past 150 years. Until recently, Bishop’s Island belonged to this dwindling group. Situated off the coast of County Clare, about 3km south-west of Kilkee (NGR 0B5B 1595), it is essent…

27/04/2016

George Karbus Photography

there is no place like Ireland in spring