Farmhouse Ruin, Slievenaglogh
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On Torr Road
Facing Views and History
A grand view presents itself throughout the roll down Torcorr into Coolranny townland. Loughan is a shallow bay along the North Channel of the Irish Sea, a rocky sand beach is accessible via a slope shallower than the cliffs on either side. This access is a reason for the tiny rural community on the slope above, now a site of ruined cottages, abandoned during the emigration from Ireland, a flight continuing into the Twentieth Century.
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See this post for a description of wildflowers flowering here in the month of June.
This photograph from the bottom of the Torr Road hill takes in Coolranny Townland. a slice of land running from the ridge to Loughan Bay. We see a number of hawthorne trees in flower, yellow flowering Whin Bush, houses and the Roman Catholic church Saint Mary’s Star of the Sea.
Tor in Irish is a steep rocky height. Likewise, Corr means odd, uneven, rounder, convex, curved, peaked, projecting, smooth. Combined Torcorr is the townland where we stopped on the Torr Road, halted by our wonder at this sight. In the distance, Torr Head projects into North Channel, the closest land to Scotland. Following the coast, the cliffs in front of Torr Head is home to numerous sea birds. The curved bay is named Loughan, the rocky sand beach are ruins of cottages emptied by Irish emigration. The white building is Saint Mary’s Star of the Sea Roman Catholic Church. County Antrim, Northern Ireland.
The photograph of the header, taken by Pam, is from either Coolranny or Loughan Townland, looking across a sheep pasture, the North Channel of the Irish Sea toward the Mull of Kintyre, Scotland just twelve miles distant.
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Slievenaglogh View, northeast, IV
View of Slieve Foy
This the fourth of a series of landscape photographs taken from this position.
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The distant ridge, Slieve Foy, is the site of a mythic battle from the epic “The Cattle Raid of Cooley” (Irish: Táin Bó Cúailnge).
Pam and I did a circuit of the island, returning to the home of my Mom’s first cousin. Our last full day on Ireland a cousin took us on the Tain Trail, over Maeve’s Gap of Slieve Foy and into Carlingford town.
Our route is partly visible to the right of the ridge, hidden in low clouds.
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Slievenaglogh View, northeast, II & III
Rural Scenery
These are the second and third of a series of landscape photographs taken from this position. See the previous post for the first.
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I visited here early morning of the Monday Pam and I embarked on a trip around the island of Ireland.
Arrived the previous Saturday when, after some sites between Dublin airport and the Cooley Peninsula, we met my Mom’s first cousin who had invited us for a visit. We had a grand time meeting them.
The ruin in this view is on the slopes of the peak. Some of these ruins are former homes with the replacement nearby. This appears to be an abandoned farm.
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Slievenaglogh View, northeast I
It goes on and on and on
Slievenaglogh is the name of a peak on the Cooley Peninsula of County Louth, Ireland near to the birthplace of my Mom, Proleek, a few townlands to the west.
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On the northeast slope of Slievenaglogh peak (Irish: Sliabh na gCloch) on the road from Mullaghattin Townland to Riverstown.
Here we look northeast from the Slievenaglogh Townland, the valley between Slieve Foy and Slievenaglogh peaks.
The view includes Little River, Ballycoly Townland and Castletown River.
Adjacent is a sheep pasture with a farm ruin behind the yellow flowered gorse (whin bush, scientific name Ulex).
Slieve Foy is the far ridge lost in clouds. Early morning, late May 2014.
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Slievenaglog Slideshow
A May Morning, Early
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Ballycoly Farmlands from Slievenaglogh Slievenaglogh View, northeast Slievenaglogh View, east northeast 
Slievenaglogh View, east northeast 
Slievenaglogh View, north northeast 
Slievenaglogh View with road, east Farmhouse ruin, Slievenaglogh Townland I 
Farmhouse ruin, Slievenaglogh Townland II 
On the slopes of Slievenaglogh 
Abandoned Hay Wagon 
Ewe, Lambs with abandoned hay wagon. 
Slievenaglogh View, northeast, 50mm 
Slievenaglogh View, east, 50mm 
Curious White Horses on Slievenaglogh, horizontal 
Curious White Horses on Slievenaglogh, vertical and cropped
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50 vs 24 mm focal length
A Cooley Peninsula Valley on a May Morning
On the northeast slope of Slievenaglogh peak (Irish: Sliabh na gCloch) on the road from Mullaghattin Townland to Riverstown. This day I swapped lenses and took in the same general direction for each. This is the first and last of a series using the Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 USM lens and I pulled in the shots from the Canon 24mm f1.4 L II USM lens, published in previous posts.
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Slievenaglogh View, northeast, 50mm Slievenaglogh View, northeast
Here we look northeast from the Slievenaglogh Townland over the valley between Slievenaglogh and Slieve Foy peaks. Slieve Foy is the far ridge lost in clouds.
This is the first and last of a series using the Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 USM lens.
Slievenaglogh View, north northeast. 50mm Slievenaglogh View, north northeast
The view includes Little River, Castletown River, Ballycoly and Glenmore Townlands. Adjacent is a sheep pasture with a farm ruin behind the yellow flowered gorse (Whin bush, scientific name Ulex).
Slievenaglogh View, east, 50mm Slievenaglogh View with road, east
Early morning, late May 2014.
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Slievenaglogh View, northeast, 50mm Slievenaglogh View, northeast Slievenaglogh View, north northeast. 50mm Slievenaglogh View, north northeast Slievenaglogh View, east, 50mm Slievenaglogh View with road, east
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Frame
green pastures framed by Whin Bush and Hawthorn windbreak
The road runs high on the shoulder of Slievenaglog peak, the 200 mm lens peers into the next townland over, Ballycoly (or Ballygoley), the valley floor broad, pastured.
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Ballycoly Farmlands from Slievenaglogh
This is the seventh and last of a series using the Canon EF 200mm f/2.8L USM lens.
Here is a recap of recent posts with the 200 and 24 mm lens. Can you tell the difference?
Slievenaglogh View, north northeast Abandoned Hay Wagon 
Ewe and Lambs 
Ewe, Lambs with abandoned hay wagon. Ballycoly Farmlands from Slievenaglogh
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