Malahide, in Fingal north of Dublin Bay...an affluent suburb of Dublin.
The last in a series of photographs taken on a trip around Southern Ireland in the Autumn
Malahide, in Fingal north of Dublin Bay...an affluent suburb of Dublin.
The bay near Portmarnock, between Malahide and Howth.
Howth Harbour. Howth (rhymes with both), is a fishing and yachting port and popular suburban resort on the north side of Howth Head, 15km - 9½ miles north-east of Dublin city centre...
......and the town.
An acrobatic gull.
And home to a resident seal......
....who decided to give us a closer look.
.....also a famous harbourside fishmonger.....
....freshly landed catch....
Brú Na Bóinne, meaning The Boyne Palace, is a vast Neolithic Necropolis, better known as Newgrange. It is one of the world's important archaeological landscapes dominated by the prehistoric passage tombs of Newgrange, Knowth and Dowth. It's a thousand years older than Stonehenge. There are more than 40 mounds which are some of the oldest surviving traces of human activity in Ireland. They remained the focus for activity and tradition long after their formal use as burial places ended.
The Newgrange mound......
From the entrance only a single narrow passage leads to the centre, where at the winter solstice, a shaft of sunlight strikes the basin stone in the end recess.
The River Boyne flowing nearby Newgrange.
A short distance up river towards Drogheda is the site of the Battle of the Boyne of 1690. Today the battle site is part of the Oldbridge Estate farm. A heritage and visitor centre is currently being developed.
Leaving the sheltered waters of Larne, to begin the crossing to Cairnryan in the teeth of a force 7 gale. This is the shortest route back to the UK. All the longer crossings from further south have been cancelled......should have stayed a few days longer.....
The Maidens Lighthouse.
The colour of the passengers....
Approaching Cairnryan......
....and picking up an escort of Gannets.....
