#county down

[myfairynuffstuff]

Daniel O'Neill (1920 - 1974) - Landscape County Down c.1950's. Oil on board.

[catdotjpeg]

Six months on, the people of Belfast still say, "Free Palestine."

-- Gerry Carroll, 6 Apr 2024

[panoramicireland]

The Mourne Mountains and the County Down countryside, green and, in places, white with snow.

Long shadows of a winter afternoon.

[sonyaheaneyauthor]

Sunset. Portaferry, County Down, Northern Ireland. June 1985.

[haveyoubeentothiscity]

Population: 64,596

[theirishaesthete]

In a Disused Graveyard

The living come with grassy tread To read the gravestones on the hill; The graveyard draws the living still, But never any more the dead. The verses in it say and say: ‘The ones who living come today To read the stones and go away Tomorrow dead will come to stay.’ So sure of death the marbles rhyme, Yet can’t help marking all the time How no one dead will seem to come. What is it men are…

[victusinveritas]

An abandoned boreen near the Mourne mountains in County Down. Photo by Mark Doherty

[scholarofgloom]

[hldky]

Resting after a job well done? by National Library of Ireland on The Commons Via Flickr: When you can fill a gap in one fell swoop, why not take the opportunity? Mr. Sampson of Downpatrick, while building a drystone wall, pulled this rock out of the ground and filled a great big gap, saving him a whole lot of digging and lifting!! Well, he probably built the wall up on either side of the rock and used it in situ, but now he can rest after his labours! Photographer: Robert French Collection: Lawrence Photograph Collection Date: Circa 1865 - 1914 NLI Ref: L_CAB_05093 You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie

[mothmiso]

Kilbroney (2) (3) by Mairéad Ni Rodaigh

[westeroswisdom]

The GOT Studio Tour has won the UKInbound Sustainable Tourism Provider of the Year award.

While the sets and items on display are themselves impressive, the Earth-friendly HVAC systems for the location are what earned them the award.

Recognised at the tourism industry group’s recent annual convention, Game of Thrones Studio Tour was hailed as a ‘world-class ultra-low carbon visitor attraction’. Located at the principal film studios for Game of Thrones – Linen Mill Studios in Banbridge, Co Down – the immersive tourist destination invites fans of TV and film to go behind the scenes and discover the artistry that went into making the TV phenomenon. [ ... ] The Studio Tour’s priceless original film sets and assets are protected within the 110,000 sq. ft visitor experience by an HVAC system with close temperature and humidity control, sensible and latent heat recovery, free cooling and a modular zero-carbon heating system with energy storage. The UKInbound judging panel were already impressed by many aspects of the Sustainable Management plan at Game of Thrones Studio Tour and the scope of future aspiration. UKinbound CEO, Joss Croft, said: “A key part of our new sustainability strategy, is to showcase our member businesses who are doing great work to reduce energy usage and protect and regenerate the environment. In the future, we will use the practices and initiatives used by Game of Thrones Studio Tour to inspire our other members to take similar action in their businesses.”

In the near future I hope that ultra-low carbon systems such as this will be the norm rather than the exception.

[garr8]

Creative Photography.

Photographing in the rain can still be fun.

[panoramicireland]

Green fields with long shadows of low afternoon sunlight in the Mourne Mountains, Ireland.

A little ice and frost remains after a week or more of sub zero temperatures.

Tollymore Forest sits between the valley farmland and the mountainous uplands.

[autotrails]

Irish Auto Trail-Moira to Crumlin (County Down and County Antrim, Northern Ireland)

[theirishaesthete]

Pagan Inspiration

On 6th-7th January 1839 Ireland was struck by what subsequently became known as the Night of the Big Wind. Such was the ferocity of the hurricane-force gales that many buildings throughout the country suffered damage, one of these being the Presbyterian Church in Portaferry, County Down. Originally dating from 1694 but almost entirely rebuilt in 1751, in the aftermath of the storm this structure…

[ex-skydiving-scientist]

Enchanted Abbey, County Down, Northern Ireland