#lough corrib

[therealuniverse]

STAR TRAILS OVER ANNAGHKEEN CASTLE This image of the North star over Annaghkeen Castle and house, along the shores of Lough Corrib, Headford, Co Galway, Ireland was taken by Conor Ledwith. The Castle was built in the 12th century by the DeBurgo family and is thought to be the oldest example in Ireland of a castle built entirely from undressed stone

Ledwith used a Canon 5Dii and Canon 16-35 lens. Camera settings were Iso 3200, f2.8 and about twenty minutes of stacked thirty second exposures. . A torch on the outside of the building and a flash on the inside were used to light up the building.The resulting image is a total of 48 images stacked to give the star trail effect. -TEL Image: Conor Ledwith https://www.facebook.com/pages/Conor-Ledwith-Photography/508733612472051 http://500px.com/conorledwith (with permission)

[mostly-history]

Great Britain and Ireland (March 2012), from the Terra satellite.

Separating Ireland from Great Britain is the Irish Sea, which is filled with the turquoise, green and tan swirls typical of sediment (though blooming algae could also be contributing some of the colour).

To the south-east, the English channel separates Great Britain from France (south) and Belgium (north).  London is a grey circle, situated inland on the tan-coloured River Thames.  Sediment from the Thames flows into the English Channel due east of London.

The United Kingdom consists of England, Scotland,Wales, and Northern Ireland.  Dublin, the capital of the Republic of Ireland, is a grey smudge on the east coast of the island.  On the west coast, nearly opposite Dublin, is the linear grey streak of Galway.  It is situated on the northern coast of Galway Bay, with the blue waters of Lough Corrib to the north.

Most of the UK and Ireland is part of the Celtic broadleaf forest ecosystem, where acid-loving oak and mixed oak forests abound, along with fen and swamp forests, and ombrotrophic mires.  A mire is a type of wetland that is dominated by living peat-forming plants. Ombrotrophic (“cloud-fed”) means that the soils or vegetation receive all of their water and nutrients from rainfall, rather than from streams or springs.

Part of the Scottish Highlands, in the north of Great Britain, are covered by the Caledon conifer forest ecoregion.  The Caledonia conifers once covered a large part of Scotland, but only about 1% of the original forest has survived, mostly high in the cooler regions of Scotland.

[womblegrinch]

Paul Henry (1876-1958) - Achill cottage, Lough Corrib

Oil on canvas. Painted in 1928.

14 x 16 inches, 35.7 x 40.8 cm. Estimate: £40,000-60,000.

Sold Bonhams, London, 20 Nov 2019 for £35,100 incl B.P.

[landscape-lunacy]

Ballycurrin Lighthouse, Ireland - by Philippe Sainte-Laudy

[glorianas]

cong, lough corrib and connemara national park, county mayo, ireland, july 28th, 2018

[myfairynuffstuff]

Orfhlaith Egan  - Loch Corrib. Acrylic and copper on canvas.

[connor-burrows]

Lough Corrib Cloud by seaver1

[stairnaheireann]

Knockma Hill (Cnoc Mheada) | Co Galway

Cnoc Meadha is a hill west of Tuam, Co Galway. It is said in legend to be the residence of Finnbheara, the king of the Connacht fairies. Of two large cairns on the hill, one was thought to be the burial-place of Finnbheara and the other of (the other) Queen Medb, whose name may be transformed in the name Cnoc Meadha. Knockma Hill is topped with prehistoric cairns. G. H. Kinahan wrote of the…

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