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2017 Ireland Ethnobotany Exploration Photos

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

B&B breakfast room

Blasket Islands

Woolen mill spinning on the old loom

hedgerow harvest processing

Fairy woodland in the Oldwood

Roundstone bog and gorse

Pot oven bread w Mairead

Hazel Cottage Connemara

The Burren and Lana

Mouganhead

Mouganhead harbour

Beehive huts view

The Burren- rocks and plants

Guinness stew dinner

Weaving the base

Ancient Yew grove on limestone

Lough Gur circle

Mairead fireplace on Innisheer

Lough Nafooey Morning walk

Crios weaving and tea with Mairead

Cliffs of Moher with Innishear in the background

Oldwood ancient oak

Beehive huts

3 Leenane village and beach

Carrowmore dolman and crows

Basketry studio

Micheal and creel

Killarney cottage and lodge

Final Group shot Killarney

Dingle holding a baby lamb

Teaching a wale

Magical trail into ancient oakwood

Final group photo Killarney

Lough Nafooey cottages 2

Canopy of the Oldwood

Oldwood ancient oaks, holly and moss

View from Queen Maeves Cairn

Seaweed at low tide Leenane

Our B&B and Cottage

Oldwood oak and lake

Leenane woolen mill museum activities - Copy

Dinner at Castlebar

The Burren and Heidi

Coming ashore from Loch Leine

On our way to the Oldwood

Roundstone bog exploration

Lough gur circle and I

Stoking the fire Mairead

Innisheer views thatch and piebald

Farmers market cheeses

Home cooked dinner

Cooking up Hedgerow Jelly and catsup

Loug gur entrance way

Roundstone bog view with group

Lough gur circle and I

Lough Nafooey morning walk

Lough Gur

Farmers market mushrooms

Oldwood exploring

Cascade through the Oldwood

Holding a baby lamb

Our Crios Bands

Full harvest moon on the Dingle

Lough Nafooey morning walk

Baskets left behind to follow us home

Wild mushrooms for soup

Kylemore group photo

Oldwood ancient oak

Amazing trees of the oldwood

Inch strand

Boat ride to the Oldwood

Happy weavers Criobs complete

Stonehouse restaurant Dingle

Innisheer stone walls

Doolin session at O' connors

Killarney Hedgerow Harvests

Full harvest moon on the Dingle

The Burren Dolman

Stonehouse best apple pie ever

Larches sesssion

Woolen mill natural dyes

Willow in workshop

Waterfall cottage Connemara

Larches new friends

Weaving with Joe Hogan

Crios Mairead and Heidi

Oldwood from the water

Happy Weavers

Burren rock formation

Last dinner out Celtic Whiskey & Larder

Woolen mill learning the drop spindle

Lough Gur Center w Bryan

Sendoff by Mairead from Innishear

Mairead Sharry and crios weaving

Dingle Peninsula

Trail through the Oldwood

Island on Loch Lein

Curraughs at Innisheer

Oldwood yew tree

Rock of Cashel

Sheep on the road Dingle

Oldwood oaks bracken ivy and moss

Our Baskets

Lamb roast dinner

Crios making with Mairead

Yew tree with seat I sat in for a while

Bodhram shop at Roundstone

Kylemore chapel

St Brigids well

Kylemore view of Connemara

Killarney cottage- roasting chicken

Basketry group photo

Dingle road- This is two way

Hedgerow harvesting crabapple

Yew grove and Heidi

Burren Perfumery

Boatman Dermot and Ross Castle

Prepping dinner

Tree tunnels everywhere

Kylemore walled garden

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