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The white sails of #Blennerville stand over Tralee Bay on a still morning. Emigrant ships once left from this shore for the New World. Blennerville Windmill was built in 1800, its sails turning against the #SlieveMish mountains. The quay below the mill has a harder history. , Blennerville was Kerry's main port of emigration. The barque Jeanie Johnston, whose home port it was, sailed for #Quebec in April 1848 with 193 emigrants on board. Over sixteen voyages to Quebec,#Baltimore and #NewYork, not one of her passengers was lost. Many other ships were not so fortunate.For families in America and Canada whose people left from #Tralee Bay, this calm water may have been the last of #Ireland their ancestors saw. That contrast, between the peace of the place and what it meant to so many, makes this a meaningful image.
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Walk in to St Mary’s and it stops you in your tracks: rich colours and an exquisite custom tiled floor. A chapel stood on this spot 216 years ago. In 1829 Fr Mahony asked Lord Listowel for funds, and the church rose that year. Its spire followed in 1865. My son works here and so I may be biased. @CatholicArena
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Fenit, County Kerry:
Gold spills through clouds and over the mountains while the pier stretches out across still water. #Fenit holds the whole sky. #CountyKerry #Ireland Photo by Me, Myself and I.
Gold spills through clouds and over the mountains while the pier stretches out across still water. #Fenit holds the whole sky. #CountyKerry #Ireland Photo by Me, Myself and I.
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Eamon Mac Daibhi retweeted
The white sails of #Blennerville stand over Tralee Bay on a still morning. Emigrant ships once left from this shore for the New World. Blennerville Windmill was built in 1800, its sails turning against the #SlieveMish mountains. The quay below the mill has a harder history. , Blennerville was Kerry's main port of emigration. The barque Jeanie Johnston, whose home port it was, sailed for #Quebec in April 1848 with 193 emigrants on board. Over sixteen voyages to Quebec,#Baltimore and #NewYork, not one of her passengers was lost. Many other ships were not so fortunate.For families in America and Canada whose people left from #Tralee Bay, this calm water may have been the last of #Ireland their ancestors saw. That contrast, between the peace of the place and what it meant to so many, makes this a meaningful image.
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Silage bales wait out the weather like something left behind by the wind. #CountyKerry #Ireland
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Some light just hits me. It breaks through a sky full of storm and lays silver across the Atlantic, and for a moment I'm holding my breath. Kerry, you still stop me in my tracks. #Kerry #Ireland #Ballyheigue
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Stone that’s survived over a hundred winters. Shoes that’ll last one season. One was built to stay, one was built to move. #Listowel #irishheritage #ireland
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Caught a rainbow and a storm on the Cliffs looking towards #CountyClare from County Kerry. #wildatlanticway
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In Ireland shopfronts were painted bold for a reason: the front of the shop was its only advertisement. Just like the cover of a book. In #Listowel, behind every shop there’s a story, and this town has never been short of people to write them down: John B. Keane, Bryan MacMahon, ce Walsh. @WritersWeek #IrishHeritage
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Ripples at Low Tide @wildatlanticway When the tide goes out on a flat Atlantic strand, it leaves a thin skin of water behind, and for an hour the beach becomes a mirror. Anyone who grew up walking Irish beaches in winter knows this hour. #WildAtlanticWay #CountyKerry #Ireland #ballybunion
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Out on Lough Leane is Innisfallen, where monks built a monastery in the 7th century. They chose one of the most beautiful places in Ireland, and 1,400 years later it still is. Some days the best thing to do is lie on the grass at @LakeHotel and take it in. #Killarney #CountyKerry #IrishHeritage
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One wall. That’s all that’s left of Ballybunion Castle, built by the Fitzmaurices in the early 1500s and destroyed in 1582. It has stood on that cliff through more than four centuries of Atlantic storms, and still looks ready for a few more. @DiscoverIreland #Ballybunion ticWay
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Eamon Mac Daibhi retweeted
#CountyKerry Skies. On the new #Listowel bypass. Blurry shot, but I captured the moment.
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