Sunday, November 21, 2010

Ireland
















Galway







Atlantic Ocean Galway, Ireland



Glendalough Monastery, 12th Century



Glendalough, Double Gateway Arch



Glendalough



Glendalough



Glendalough



Glendalough





St. Kevins cross, Glendalough, 12th or 13th century



Glendalough





Rocks on the coast in The Burren, West Ireland











Cathedral ruins





Celtic Cross



Celtic pattern on base of cross



Etching into stone of a medival celtic christian church. What is interesting to me about this is how loose and distinctivley celtic the lines are of the etching while the subject, a bishop making a Chi Ro (Christ the King) symbol (with his right hand) is a dominate theme found in medieval paintings.







Fairy Ring in The Burren, West Ireland









Cliffs of Moher





Cliffs of Moher



Cliffs of Moher




Cliffs of Moher







Limestone, which is what makes the sea cliffs in Ireland break off in such large jagged sheets.



The white blotch is a horse grazing on the top of the hill next to the edge of a cliff that goes down into the sea. Horses graze right up to the cliff edge.





Lighthouse on Howth Head