The Streedagh wedge monument with a spectacular view to Benbulben.
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Me and my mythical totem pole at Moytura 2000, a festival we organised at Lough Arrow to mark the Millennium and celebrate our local mythology.
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3 Feb 2010 Back tidying up pages and adding new pictures. Have just finished reworking my Croagh Patrick pages, and I think they are looking good! 26 October 2008 Back working on the website. I haven't had a digital camera for several years; I recently got a second-hand Canon and have been having a great time visiting new monuments and taking pictures, such as the Streedagh wedge, (above) and St. Brigit's well and cross-slab in Cliffoney, (right). I have visited about 15 new (to me) monuments in the last few weeks, so I intend to upgrade pages - I am working on Benbulben at the moment. I have also been working on a clickable map of County Sligo. 14 January 2008 Hmmmmmmm......
I'm not too good at keeping up with my news page. To tell the truth,
I haven't been to too many monuments lately, what with children, music
and gardening. I have also been practicing a lot of tunes on the fiddle. We are going over to play in Lugano, south Switzerland, for St. Patrick's weekend - there are big festivities to mark the 400th anniversary of the Flight of the Earls. Here is a suggested session set for the event: The
Sligo Maid/The Woman of the House/The Morning Star - reels
Benwhisken, the beautiful and quite strangely shaped mountain to the north of Benbulben. This is the entrance to the magnificent Horseshoe valley, one of the little-known wonders of Co. Sligo. 1 November 2003 Well, having spent a lot of time in 2002 rebuilding this website, I hardly got near it in 2003 - it has been exactly a year since the last update - the trip to the Easkey river valley to visit the dolmens there (Giants Griddle, below). I was an archaeology student (part-time, NUI Galway) up until May 2003 when I graduated with first class honours. I really enjoyed learning about Gaelic Medieval Ireland and the Norman invasion and subsequent history. I will post some of the essays I wrote on the site in due course.
The Giant's Griddle, a beautiful dolmen at Tawnatruffan up the Easkey river valley in west Sligo. 5/10/2002. I also spent some of early 2003 teaching for the VEC - I visited about 35 national schools in county Sligo and gave a slide show on the stone age heritage and mythology of the county. This was well recieved and I got to show a life-size image of the Entrance stone at Newgrange to about 1,500 kids.
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The beautiful wedge monument beside the river at Drumclifffe.
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September 2004 I took up the fiddle and went to the Drumshanbo school
of traditional music, and this is what I have been up to for the last
few years, which is the main reason that this website has recieved
so little attention since. I finish my third year of a very enjoyable
time spent playing and learning tunes from Paddy Ryan, a highly respected
teacher and fiddle player from North Roscommon.