Ballybunion
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New Years Day 2006 – Refreshing
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/ Once the subject of many a postcard of Ballybunion, Co. Kerry, Ireland, but now mostly forgotten by all but the local people.
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/ Once a large promontery fort in Ballybunion, Co. Kerry, Ireland, now mostly forgotten. It stands on an almost inaccessible ‘island’, split from the mainland by a ten foot wide cleft some thirty feet deep. The place can only be accessed by walking through fields and along the cliffs some mile or more form the nearest road.
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For affordable canvas prints please click here The Lartigue railway ran the 10 miles form Listowel to Ballybunion in Co. Kerry, Ireland. It was a monorail system that much has been written about on the internet. This shot shows the last remaining bridge over what was part of the Lartigue Railway line. /
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My bubble-buddy Jenifer suggested we each take an image and play around with it on Photoshop to see what we come up with. the only rule was the title would be Dimensions. This is what I came up with. It’s a group of pubs in Ballybunion, Co. Kerry, Ireland, that I visited and shot from different angles. I have layered several together and played around with it in PS to get what you see. /
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For affordable canvas prints please click here Deep in the caves of the Ladies Strand, in Ballybunion, is this cavern. Its ceiling is supported by this huge column. It doesn’t have a name that I know of, but I had to call it something. / The caves are only accessible at very low tides, which occur only a couple of times a year. The tides are treacherous are turn very quickly. People have died in these caves, becoming trapped in the pitch dark caves by the fast turning tides. / I have frequented these caves over many years and have learned where they go and how to watch for the turn. I wouldn’t advise anyone to ever go alone and to retreat at the first sign of the tide turning. Another five minutes could be five minutes too long. / that’s my son Milan to the left of the column. He gives it some scale. /
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For affordable canvas prints please click here Add A90Six to your WatchList! BLACK & WHITE | BUILDINGS & ARCHITECTURE | FLOWERS | IRELAND | LONDON | MALLORCA | PLAYING with PICTURES | RED The Virgin rock from the Nuns Strand Caves, Ballybunion, County Kerry, Ireland. the Nuns Strand is a small secluded beach with golden sands. It is surrounded on all sides by cliffs. The only access these days is gained by climbing down the cliff face. / Many years ago, St Joseph’s Convent was built on the cliffs, affording the nuns a wonderous view. A wooden stirway was built so that they could access the beach and it was theirs to use exclusively. / The Virgin Rock is all that remains of what was once another small promontory cliff that has been eroded by the sea. Before the arrival of the nuns, the rock was known as Carraig Na Faoileán (Rock of !the Gulls). /
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Add A90Six to your WatchList! BLACK & WHITE | BUILDINGS & ARCHITECTURE | FLOWERS | IRELAND | LONDON | MALLORCA | PLAYING with PICTURES | RED BEST VIEWED AS A MEDIUM SIZED FRAMED PRINT ON YOUR SITTING ROOM WALL! The Castle Green cliff with the ruins of Ballybunion Castle atop juts out from the coastline separating the Ladies’ Strand form the Men’s Strand. /
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For affordable canvas prints please click here BEST VIEWED AS A MEDIUM SIZED FRAMED PRINT ON YOUR SITTING ROOM WALL! Drifting all alone on a vast ocean with just myself for company! This is a shot of a cargo vessel heading out from the mouth of the River Shannon across Ballybunion Bay in the eastern Atlantic Ocean. The shot was taken with a telephoto lens from Knockanore Mountain (really a large hill) some two miles from shore as the préachán flies. / /
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Add A90Six to your WatchList! BLACK & WHITE | BUILDINGS & ARCHITECTURE | FLOWERS | IRELAND | LONDON | MALLORCA | PLAYING with PICTURES | RED BEST VIEWED AS A MEDIUM SIZED FRAMED PRINT ON YOUR SITTING ROOM WALL! The Celtic Cross, sometimes referred to as the Irish Cross is these days represetative of the Christian Church in Ireland. Ancient Celtic crosses can also be found in other Celtic regions such as Cornwall in England, Wales, Scotland and the Scottish Isles. It’s origins are unclear, but the notion that it was introduced by St Patrick is not true as the symbol was around long before his time. The cross in this shot is a headstone on a grave at Killahenna Cemetery, Ballybunion, Co. Kerry, Ireland, where many of my ancestors and relatives are buried. /
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BEST VIEWED AS A MEDIUM SIZED FRAMED PRINT ON YOUR SITTING ROOM WALL! These words are painted at the bottom of the path to the Ladies; Strand in Ballybunion. The path is for pedestrians only, so nothing moves fast enough to require reverse signage. The step at the end of the path has long been removed and the gap it left has been filled and sloped to match the rest of the path. / For this reason I can only assume that this is a message to people to try to find higher levels of enlightenment and understading within themselves. /
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Featured in Dilapidated Buildings 25th November, 2008. This church in Doon, Ballybunion closed it’s doors to its congregation a few short years after the new, St John’s, church opened in the town centre on 1st August, 1897. The parish could not afford to keep two churches going. / Doon church is used these days as a storage building for farm equipment.
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Ballybunion Castle on a windy Spring day. /
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For affordable canvas prints please click here Ballybunion Castle at sunset. Is anyone getting the idea that I love this place? /
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For affordable canvas prints please click here Sunset over the Nuns Strand in Ballybunion, Co. Kerry, Ireland. The wind was so hard that it was difficult to stand up straight let alone keep the camera steady on the tripod. The spray from the sea was coming up over the cliff and hitting the lens., but I still liked the shot. Oh, and it was absolutely freezing cold. The wind cut straight through me. /
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The sunset over the Atlantic Ocean at Ballybunion Bay taken from Knockanore Mountain. /
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For affordable canvas prints please click here Ballybunion, Ireland, on the beach, sundown. FEATURED in: / ‘Ireland’ November ‘08 / ‘Featuring the Shadows Photography’ Nov & Dec ‘08 / ‘Stillness Speaks’, January ‘09 / ‘First Things’, April ‘09 / ‘Your Magic Place’ May ‘09 with thanks! COMPETITION WINNER: Mood & Ambience, May ‘09 Canon EOS 400D / Shutter speed 1/640 / AV 20 / ISO 100 / No flash
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For affordable canvas prints please click here 3.redbubble.net/img/art/border:noborder/product:mounted-print/size:small/view:preview/1931705-3-sundown-again-ballybunion.jpg(Sundown on the shore at Ballybunion)!:http://www.redbubble.com/products/configure/6530556 Sundown; Ballybunion, Ireland. / Canon EOS 400D 18-55mm lens Featured in: / The Patchwork Group, November ‘08 / Canon DSLR Group, March ‘09 / All Water in Motion Group, April ‘09
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On the tiny bank of a rock pool on the Men’s Strand at Ballybunion, Co. Kerry, Ireland, the rings leftr by the receding waters can be seen in the grains of sand. The Black Rocks can be seen in the background. /
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For affordable canvas prints please click here FEATURED home page March 2009 with many thanks! / Also featured in: / ‘Ireland’, November ‘08 / ‘In the shadows photography’, November ‘08 / ‘That One Great Shot’, January ‘08 / ‘First Things’, April ‘09 / ‘Heritage Listed and Other Trusts Sites World Wide’, June ‘09 / ‘Your Magic Place’, November ‘09 / with many thanks. From a plaque inscription on the East Wall of Ballybunion Castle: / ‘Ballybunion Castle was built by the Geraldines in the 14th Century. It stands on the Castle Green site of an old promontory coastal fort of the “Clann Conaire.” In 1582 the castle had been acquired from the Geraldines by the Bonyon family. In 1583 William Og Bonyon lost the castle and lands due to his part in the Desmond Rebellion. In 1612 the castle and lands were granted to Thomas Fitzmaurice 16th Lord of Kerry and Lixnaw by the English King James 6th. By 1783 Richard Hare was in possession of the castle. From 1923 onwards the castle has gone under the care of the Office of Public Works. It was destroyed in the Desmond Wars. All that remains today is this East Wall. It stands as a memorial to the Bonyons, a proud and powerful family from whom today’s beautiful coastal town of Ballybunion takes its name.’ This castle is part of Kerry’s heritage. I have added this to the ‘all about your best work’ group because I feel it is one of my best captures and I was particularly pleased with the outcome of some considered editing. Well I liked it! Canon EOS 400D HDR and Photoshop CS3 edit.
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For affordable canvas prints please click here A look across the wet sand at low tide from the Ladies’ Strand to the Men’s Strand, Ballybunion, Co. Kerry, Ireland.
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For affordable canvas prints please click here This is one of the beaches in the town where I grew up. Here, I would play with cousins, bulid sand-castles ant torment crabs in the rock pools. As a teenager there were wild parties with huge bonfires and lots of drink. This is where I learnt to swin. The Black Rocks to the left is where we would colect periwinkles when the tide went out. The Castle ruins was where my great-grandfather would climb and sing when he’d had a few too many. The two main beaches in Ballybunion, Co. Kerry, Ireland, are named The Men’s Strand and The Ladies Strand. The beaches are separated by a cliff, atop which stands the ruins of a promontory fort, Ballybunion Castle. The names date back to the Victorian era when it was seemly for ladies and gents to bathe in different areas. The names are still used, but the gender restriction has not been observed for many a decade.
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Another perspective on the beautiful Ballybunion castle. In this piece I have tried to capture the mirrored shape of the castle edge and the rocks on the cliff edge from the beach. Taken as evening was closing in, the castle was lit by a projected light. ‘Ballybunion Castle was built by the Geraldines in the 14th Century. It stands in Ballybunion, County Kerry, on the Castle Green site of an old promontory coastal fort of the “Clann Conaire.” In 1582 the castle had been acquired from the Geraldines by the Bonyon family. In 1583 William Og Bonyon lost the castle and lands due to his part in the Desmond Rebellion. In 1612 the castle and lands were granted to Thomas Fitzmaurice 16th Lord of Kerry and Lixnaw by the English King James 6th. By 1783 Richard Hare was in possession of the castle. From 1923 onwards the castle has gone under the care of the Office of Public Works. It was destroyed in the Desmond Wars. All that remains today is this East Wall. / Other Bubble Image of this castle: / Canon EOS 400D 18-55mm lens.
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The beautiful rocks of the Nun’s Strand Beach at Ballybunion, County Kerry, Ireland. Ballybunion beaches were not just traditionally separated into the men’s beach and the ladies beach. There was also the Nun’s strand for the nuns from the convent that used to be on top of the cliffs! The convent has now been converted into flats. The rocks seen here are ‘the virgin rock’ on the left, ‘the stack’ in the centre and the arched rock on the right is one of ‘the chimneys’. Canon EOS 400D 18-55mm lens.
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