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ilur:

So my mate Damian and I sailed from Baltimore to Ballydehob for the Jazz festival there this past weekend. Wind was southwesterly force 5-6. We stopped off at East Skeam island for lunch and a cup of tea. The island is only inhabited by cows now, it’s human residents are long gone.

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Cape Clear :: Unclear :: From Schull Pier www.jasonxlee.com
Chimney Row :: Schull www.jasonxlee.com
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New Moon over Sheep’s Head.
April Gale blowing off the Atlantic
North Shore of the Mizen, looking West.
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Busy book launch in Whytes Booksop (publisher) of the new photo-book ‘The Coast Of West Cork’ by local photographer John D’Alton (pictured) in Schull tonight.
Wonderful to see the sun.
Starting with the Famine in the mid-1850s, the population of Ireland declined from 8 million to less than 3 million by the early 1920s. The Mizen Peninsula area was one of the hardest hit with the population dropping from more than 17,000 to perhaps 2,000 today. This abandoned two-up, two-down stone house and many others like it dot the country side and is a good reminder of different Time before the Age of Electricity, Automobiles, Central Heating and the Internet.
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Reilig Chill Aingeal On the north shore of the Mizen…
Kilthomane National School - 1909, on the north shore of the Mizen. Most of the two room schools across Ireland have long been abandoned. But some are still in service giving even today’s children the pleasure of a good rural education.
Gorse Fire at Altar, Toormore. - www.jasonxlee.com
A glorious day on the north shore of the Mizen looking west across the stunning Dunmanus Bay…
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silvernessinthelining: Abandoned…..
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