skywatch

Wind turbine down by the harbour in Burtonport, Co. Donegal

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mystery man

sitting and waiting 

for some helping hands

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the lobster pot restaurant & bar

burtonport, co. donegal 

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little huts

 for dining.  Being creative during covid times.

monday mural

 seen in burtonport

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shopping centre

in Letterkenny.  Never seen this place with no people, it was eerie.  All the benches that were here for sitting were removed.  Tesco was the only place opened for groceries and it's behind me when I took this photo.

saturday critters

 waiting for his person outside the pharmacy.

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skywatch

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old cart

and the derelict cooperage buiding.

burtonport, co. donegal

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 seen in Burtonport but it was closed due to covid.

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a boat and a shed

seen in Burtonport which is 8 km from Dungloe.  

nature's art

 growing on the house

communication tower

 in Dungloe

saturday critters

 a couple of swans floating on the River Garavogue in Sligo

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nice day

for  a visit to the river trail.

towels

 hanging out to dry.

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morning milk delivery

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Ballinrobe Cavalry Barracks

from the archives 2014

Detached eight-bay two-storey barrack with half-dormer attic, reconstructed 1812; extant 1824, on a U-shaped plan with single-bay (single-bay deep) full-height gabled projecting end bays. Vacant, 1901. Occupied, 1911[?]. Burnt, 1922. In ruins, 1926. Pitched roof now missing, remains of limestone ashlar central chimney stacks having lichen-covered cut-limestone stringcourses below capping supporting yellow terracotta tapered pots, remains of cut-limestone coping to gables with limestone ashlar chimney stacks to apexes having cut-limestone stringcourses below capping supporting yellow terracotta tapered pots, and no goods surviving on cut-limestone eaves. Part creeper- or ivy-covered coursed rubble limestone walls originally rendered[?] with hammered limestone flush quoins to corners. Pair of square-headed door openings with overgrown thresholds, and cut-limestone block-and-start surrounds centred on keystones with fittings now missing. Square-headed window openings with cut-limestone sills, and cut-limestone block-and-start surrounds with fittings now missing. Interior in ruins. Set in unkempt grounds.

Info courtesy of  National Inventory of Architectural Heritage

housing estate nightmare

The article below is from 2012.   

A big eye sore and a place that has been vandalized and stripped of everything of value.  I noticed this place when I first started walking to the recycle centre, it is located right near there.

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An entire housing estate that is subsiding as a result of being built on a bog should be levelled, most of its owners have told the High Court. The development has been referred to locally as the “Titanic site”, the court heard.

Radharc An Seascan, a 15-house estate at Meenmore overlooking Dungloe Bay in Co Donegal, was largely completed in 2007/8 and sold mostly to people from Northern Ireland who bought the houses as holiday homes and investments.  The owners have sued the builders.

Within a year of completion of the estate the entire site suffered serious subsidence because it was built on a peat bog, Desmond Murphy, counsel for 13 of the house owners, said.

The owners say the subsidence caused water pipes in the houses to break, damaged central heating and drainage/sewage systems, caused steps and ramps to detach from walls, and tarmac to sink.

Some of the owners had used the houses to holiday in themselves, while others had rented them out until the subsidence problems made them uninhabitable, the court heard.

The houses now attract anti-social behaviour, illegal dumping and have also been subjected to vandalism and theft, with the heating boilers from most of the houses stolen in October 2011, the owners say.

Holes of up to a metre wide have appeared on the site, posing a serious danger, particularly for children.

Most of the owners, who paid between €155,000 and €190,000 for the houses, told the court they believed all the houses should be knocked because they could not be economically repaired.

Info from the Irish Times, Oct 08, 2012

blue and yellow

the sun was shining for a while on the gorse making it a brighter yellow.

saturday critters

 a grey heron and seagull.   Captured the photo just after they took off from a rock.

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reflections

colour

 on a dull day.

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 the HealthWise sign is missing in action.  Maybe a new one or a repair?

here's the front of the building back in June of last year.  If they are going to change the sign, they'll have to change this one too.

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snowing

here yesterday, it didn't stay around for long.  It was a holiday, Easter Monday, so the street was pretty quiet.  The photo is of lower main street

looking toward upper main street

killybegs harbour

one of their fishing ships 

photo taken in 2018

Happy Easter

 for all those who celebrate it.

saturday critters

love the hairdo, isn't it nice. :)

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the cool experience

Eucon is the market leader in door to door and quay to quay container transportation to and from Ireland and the European Mainland. It is the largest container service in and out of Ireland and offers the most comprehensive port coverage and frequency of sailings in the short sea business.  They operate a fleet of owned refrigerated 45’ pallet wide equipment and have a dedicated department within Eucon “The Cool Experience” dealing with all reefer shipments.

cup fungi

looks like a screaming wall of cup fungi.  I saw these yesterday on a side of a building and never heard of them before.  Shari had pointed them out to me when we walked passed the building.