Really cold on the hills today
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billy56
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A plaque at Cronin's Yard commemorates the 5 victims.
Was this a farm yard that you once set out from and payed the auld doll 50p
for parking the car, only up it once and can remember the date well 15/8/98
The day of the omagh bomb!!
Was this a farm yard that you once set out from and payed the auld doll 50p
for parking the car, only up it once and can remember the date well 15/8/98
The day of the omagh bomb!!
BOIRCHE
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was the 1200 parked out in the freezin fog???
A plaque at Cronin's Yard commemorates the 5 victims.
Was this a farm yard that you once set out from and payed the auld doll 50p
for parking the car, only up it once and can remember the date well 15/8/98
The day of the omagh bomb!!
The same yard; the auld doll is Eileen; before the mobile phone that auld doll was the woman to spot cars still in the yard late in the evening and raise a mountain rescue alert. Her son John is a member of Kerry mountain rescue along with myself and 30 or so others.
You'll have to give it another shot to dissociate it from such an apalling day in our history.
spent the weekend walking in the mournes too.
have the use of a fantastic cottage up spence's mountain.
boirche - I know there is at least one ww2 bomber up there somewhere - we were talking about it on saturday - have you a grid ref for it? is it up near chimney rock??
have the use of a fantastic cottage up spence's mountain.
boirche - I know there is at least one ww2 bomber up there somewhere - we were talking about it on saturday - have you a grid ref for it? is it up near chimney rock??
billy56
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I would love to get to the top again but i now suffer from chronic fatigue so walking to the top off the stairs some day,s is enough
However i try to get to killarney once a year
However i try to get to killarney once a year
BOIRCHE
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oh yea that must be the one up above John Carrs were Bert used to stay...i have grid refs for most of them in a local book that was produced "Twelve square miles of Mourne" but for the life of me can't find it (think i loaned it out
)if i get it i will PM it to you, there was a large American airbase on the outskirts of Kilkeel that streched as far as Cranfield...another bomber crashed on the far side of Carlingford lough above Omeath,think there were a few survivors and at least one came back in later yrs to thank the local people and far as i rem the pics hung in Howes bar in the village.P.J.
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WHO KNOWS?
. . who knows where King's Gully is, Ben Bulbin, & is it accessible these times?
Land owners were denying access in that region, some time back.
. . who knows where King's Gully is, Ben Bulbin, & is it accessible these times?
Land owners were denying access in that region, some time back.
Fulachtfia
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sometimes it's foggy up there too
bogman
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Nice picture
oh yea that must be the one up above John Carrs were Bert used to stay...i have grid refs for most of them in a local book that was produced "Twelve square miles of Mourne" but for the life of me can't find it (think i loaned it out
Thanks.!
BOIRCHE
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did a 24k walk yesterday in the townland of Saul(sabhall in irish..and named after his first church building in Ireland a converted barn) outside Downpatrick as part of the St Patricks day festival, taking in the shores of Strangford Lough and the little bay at the mouth of the Slaney river were St Patrick landed in 432CE bringing christianity to all the inhabitants of this island,...scenery,roads,and excelent Guinness in the aptly named "Paddys barn"...and great haddock chips an mushy peas in "Skippers" fish&chip shop Ardglass....Fishdash anyone???????
(RIP) Bin Ridin
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"So many chip-shops, so little time"....
Hey Bin Did BOIRCHE just volounteer to run the FD6
Methinks So! As he suggested it Didn't he?
(RIP) Bin Ridin
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"Resistance is futile".....
nud1e
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...and great haddock chips an mushy peas in "Skippers" fish&chip shop Ardglass....Fishdash anyone???????
we have a winner.
Don't ya just love a volunteer*.
FD6, a couple or more photos for the Photo Rally, a visit to my parents all rolled into one trip, yes
*Now for those easily offended, by volunteer I mean "a person who voluntarily offers himself for a service or undertaking." and nothing else, so hold back on the PMs
Fishdash anyone???????
What date had you in mind ? I could do Good Friday
I'm delighted to see someone else volunteering for a change
BOIRCHE
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wot!!!!
well it tis just round the corner from the lighthouse...wot!!volunteer!!!who said that??
we have a winner.
Don't ya just love a volunteer*.
FD6, a couple or more photos for the Photo Rally, a visit to my parents all rolled into one trip, yes
*Now for those easily offended, by volunteer I mean "a person who voluntarily offers himself for a service or undertaking." and nothing else, so hold back on the PMs
well it tis just round the corner from the lighthouse...wot!!volunteer!!!who said that??
P.J.
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HERE WE GO . .
. . fair play to ye with the pic, Michael, nothing like cranking it up?
. . fair play to ye with the pic, Michael, nothing like cranking it up?
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