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2017 Ireland Ethnobotany Exploration Photos

Photos from our Ireland Ethnobotany Exploration September 23- October 6, 2017

Mouganhead

Beehive huts

On our way to the Oldwood

Coming ashore from Loch Leine

Fairy woodland in the Oldwood

Carrowmore dolman and crows

Leenane woolen mill museum activities - Copy

Blasket Islands

Curraughs at Innisheer

Pot oven bread w Mairead

Our Crios Bands

Stonehouse best apple pie ever

Woolen mill learning the drop spindle

Cliffs of Moher with Innishear in the background

Boatman Dermot and Ross Castle

Mairead Sharry and crios weaving

Oldwood oak and lake

Beehive huts view

Oldwood oaks bracken ivy and moss

Mairead fireplace on Innisheer

Cooking up Hedgerow Jelly and catsup

The Burren and Lana

Our B&B and Cottage

Farmers market cheeses

Magical trail into ancient oakwood

Dingle Peninsula

Tree tunnels everywhere

Trail through the Oldwood

Ancient Yew grove on limestone

Boat ride to the Oldwood

Rock of Cashel

Sendoff by Mairead from Innishear

3 Leenane village and beach

Kylemore view of Connemara

Farmers market mushrooms

Roundstone bog and gorse

Roundstone bog exploration

Oldwood yew tree

Lough Nafooey Morning walk

Holding a baby lamb

Burren Perfumery

Amazing trees of the oldwood

Killarney cottage- roasting chicken

St Brigids well

Woolen mill natural dyes

Lough gur circle and I

Woolen mill spinning on the old loom

Lough Gur

Seaweed at low tide Leenane

Full harvest moon on the Dingle

Lough Nafooey morning walk

Happy Weavers

Innisheer stone walls

Weaving the base

Kylemore chapel

The Burren- rocks and plants

Basketry group photo

Our Baskets

Island on Loch Lein

Hazel Cottage Connemara

Kylemore group photo

Dingle road- This is two way

Lamb roast dinner

Killarney cottage and lodge

Mouganhead harbour

Roundstone bog view with group

Hedgerow harvesting crabapple

Happy weavers Criobs complete

Bodhram shop at Roundstone

Sheep on the road Dingle

Lough Nafooey cottages 2

Crios making with Mairead

Oldwood ancient oak

View from Queen Maeves Cairn

Home cooked dinner

Kylemore walled garden

Crios weaving and tea with Mairead

Oldwood ancient oaks, holly and moss

Yew tree with seat I sat in for a while

Basketry studio

Loug gur entrance way

Lough gur circle and I

The Burren Dolman

Wild mushrooms for soup

Lough Gur circle

Stoking the fire Mairead

Stonehouse restaurant Dingle

Teaching a wale

Killarney Hedgerow Harvests

The Burren and Heidi

Oldwood from the water

hedgerow harvest processing

Prepping dinner

Oldwood ancient oak

Willow in workshop

Crios Mairead and Heidi

Burren rock formation

B&B breakfast room

Yew grove and Heidi

Dingle holding a baby lamb

Lough Nafooey morning walk

Guinness stew dinner

Larches sesssion

Larches new friends

Lough Gur Center w Bryan

Canopy of the Oldwood

Final Group shot Killarney

Innisheer views thatch and piebald

Oldwood exploring

Doolin session at O' connors

Final group photo Killarney

Last dinner out Celtic Whiskey & Larder

Dinner at Castlebar

Micheal and creel

Baskets left behind to follow us home

Inch strand

Weaving with Joe Hogan

Cascade through the Oldwood

Waterfall cottage Connemara

Full harvest moon on the Dingle

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