IRISH COUNTRY ROAD
When Gabriela, the kids and Marjorie and I toured Southern Ireland a year or so ago, the roads were empty as the tourist season had not begun.
This quaint and starkly beautiful road get jammed in the summer but for us it was a lonely adventure. I think it is located down in the Southwest
corner of Ireland…perhaps the Dingle. No matter, places like this are easy to find. Just imagine subsisting on potatoes on those tiny fields and then
suddenly discovering the plants had shrivelled up and died. That happened in the 1840’s. Remnants of bad times are easy to find. But the
local pubs wash away the grief…or maybe just hide it deeper.
When I worked a few miles from here in 1960 sites such as tis were not uncommon around Bunmahon, County Waterford. No doubt long gone now for Ireland
underwent a wave of investment that made a lot of changes. But not so many that the flavours of the past were all consumed…for this picture was tanned in 2014 I think.
See if you can find one lone cow.
alan skeoch
May 2018