From the heights of Dun Aonghasa the karst, a type of limestone, of Inishmore falls away for the sight of the twelve pins against Galway Bay. These unworked, barren slopes have a pale green covering growing seemingly on air.
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On approach to Dun Aonghasa, Cottage Road dips closer to the road for this view of a field with enough dense grass for five cows to feed, the rest on the cushioning green. Where did this come from?
The answer is simple hard work, hundreds, a thousand years of hauling seaweed and sand, mixing it on the barren limestone, allowing the rot of time to work. Hold it down with roots, till and refresh.
Click me for the first post of this series, “Horse Trap on Inishmore.”
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Do you ever get the impression mankind has become soft? Lot’s of hard work in that picture.
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I lived on rocky land (in Vermont) for years and though it was a total pain to dig, it was nothing like what the people of Dun Aonghasa face/faced. I can’t imagine the toil. Great photos, Michael, brought further to life by your reflection on the history.
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Yes, D. Wallace….Time and human effort have a magical effect. We are similar to Vermont in the rocky, clay soil — the aftereffects of (at least two) glaciers covering the land.
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Those glaciers were a nuisance long after they were gone. 🙂
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