Irish Countryside

Abandoned Irish House

Abandoned Irish House in County Clare

UPDATE: This actually was the local blacksmith’s forge and home in the townland of Lanna, between the villages of Lissycasey and Ballynacally. A new family home now sits on this site. Abandoned and crumbling...

Patchwork greenery of Ireland's County Clare.

Patchwork Greenery of Ireland’s County Clare

County Clare’s patchwork of green meadows and farmland give way to the mighty Shannon River with County Limerick and the Galtee Mountain Range in the distance. This is the view you might have if...

Cormorant on Lake Knockalough

Cormorant on Lake Knockalough in County Clare

A majestic Cormorant takes in the summer Irish sunshine from his perch on rocks in historic Lake Knockalough, near Kilmihil, County Clare, Ireland. According to Birdwatch Ireland, Cormorants are most commonly seen at sea...

Irish Country Road in County Clare

Irish Country Road in County Clare

Vibrant greenery and wildflowers line this Irish country road in the townland of Lanna, County Clare, Ireland, between Lissycasey and Ballynacally. The area, part of the Parish of Clondegad in the Barony of Islands,...

Path through Yeats' Fairy Forest at Ballylee, County Galway

Path through Yeats’ Fairy Forest, County Galway

Sunlight streams through trees as a serpentine path winds its way through wildflowers in the ‘fairy forest’ alongside Thoor Ballylee, former summer home to Ireland’s famed Nobel Prize-winning Poet W. B. Yeats, in County...