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Showing posts with label Burren. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Burren. Show all posts
23 February 2022

The old courthouse in
Kinvara has a connection
with the arts since the 1860s

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The old courthouse in Kinvara, Co Galway … standing for two centuries and now an arts centre (Photograph: Patrick Comerford, 2022) Patrick...
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22 February 2022

The romantic ruins of
Muckinish Castle in the Burren,
overlooking Galway Bay

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Shanmuckinish Castle, or Muckinish Castle, is a ruined tower house in Drumcreehy, Co Clare, not far from the churchyard with Henry Comerford...
15 February 2022

Stopping in Ballyvaughan,
Co Clare, to see the Church
of Saint John the Baptist

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The Church of Saint John the Baptist, on Lisdoonvarna Road, Ballyvaughan, Co Clare (Photograph: Patrick Comerford, 2022) Patrick Comerford...
09 February 2022

Searching for more family
links in Co Clare, and finding
another link with Dylan Thomas

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The Falls Hotel in Ennistymon … once the family home of the Macnamara family, who laid out the streets of Enistymon, Co Clare (Photograph: P...
08 February 2022

In search of a family mausoleum
and finding John Betjeman
cycling with Emily in the Burren

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Ballyvaughan, the Burren and Galway Bay spread out below Corkscrew Hill in north Clare (Photograph: Patrick Comerford, 2022) Patrick Comer...
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07 February 2022

Finding a Comerford
family mausoleum in
the Burren in Co Clare

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The mausoleum of Henry Comerford in Drumcreehy Churchyard at Bishop’s Quarter, near Ballyvaughan, Co Clare (Photograph: Patrick Comerford, 2...
31 July 2021

Corpus Christi Church,
in the heart of the festival
town of Lisdoonvarna

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Corpus Christi Church in Lisdoonvarna, Co Clare (Photograph: Patrick Comerford, 2021) Patrick Comerford On the way from Kinvara in Co ...
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29 July 2018

Corcomroe Abbey: the
Cistercians’ fertile abbey
in the barren Burren

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Corcomroe Abbey stands on the edge of the Burren, about 7 km east of Ballyvaughan (Photograph: Patrick Comerford) Patrick Comerford Du...
24 July 2018

From island hopping in
Doolin to the drama of
the Cliffs of Moher

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Flowers try to burst through the rocky Burren landscape at the harbour in Doolin, Co Clare (Photograph: Patrick Comerford, 2018) Patrick...

The harbour at Ballyvaughan
is the entrance to the Burren

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The Harbour at Ballyvaughan … owes much to the work of Alexander Nimmo in the 1830s (Photograph: Patrick Comerford, 2018; click on image for...