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Carrickabraghy Castle, Donagh Famine Village, Donegal, Famine Village, Ireland, North Atlantic Coast, photography
After spending a few days way up in the North of Ireland I came back from Donegal yesterday, tired but with lots of lovely memories and a camera filled with photos.
I stayed in a town called Cardonagh, close to the most northerly point of Ireland, on the Inishowen peninsula . Donegal is stunningly beautiful, very green and due to it’s isolation to the rest of the Republic of Ireland it has a very distinct cultural identity. As the people of Donegal say themselves: “Up here it’s different”.
As always in Ireland the weather was wet, sunny, windy, stormy, hot and humid one after the other and at times all rolled up into one changeable day. But when you are in good company and have lots to see the weather becomes secondary.
On Monday my friend and I went to the Donagh Famine Village and Carrickabraghy Castle (also known as the Castles), right up at the north Atlantic coast.Here are a few of the many photos I took:
Canny’s Cottage, this little home was built for a Hermite by the people of Inishowen so he wouldn’t have to live in a cave
Doagh Strand
Doagh Strand
for visitors only
green lighting in a ramshackled toilet
Doagh Famine Village, the tour guide lived in this house until 1984
thatched roof
the ceiling inside
hanging from the rafters
a swallows nest
take a seat (green and yellow are the Donegal colours)
cottage rose
hand woven basket
making the door fit
a cup of tea
pebble beach
for the brave
Carrickabraghey Castle, or the Castles as it is known locally
the Atlantic
build on rock (carrick)
an Inishowen Chicken
growing inside
some rusty nails
working farm
wonder if Queen Elizabeth knows about this
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