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2017 Ireland Ethnobotany Exploration Photos

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

Kylemore walled garden

Innisheer stone walls

Roundstone bog and gorse

Yew grove and Heidi

Lough Nafooey morning walk

Roundstone bog exploration

Dinner at Castlebar

Our Baskets

Prepping dinner

Blasket Islands

Killarney cottage- roasting chicken

Crios making with Mairead

Leenane woolen mill museum activities - Copy

Roundstone bog view with group

The Burren- rocks and plants

Stoking the fire Mairead

Dingle road- This is two way

Full harvest moon on the Dingle

Oldwood oaks bracken ivy and moss

Mairead fireplace on Innisheer

hedgerow harvest processing

Willow in workshop

Our B&B and Cottage

Coming ashore from Loch Leine

Doolin session at O' connors

Stonehouse restaurant Dingle

Dingle Peninsula

Lamb roast dinner

B&B breakfast room

Wild mushrooms for soup

Cliffs of Moher with Innishear in the background

Lough Gur circle

Larches sesssion

Yew tree with seat I sat in for a while

Inch strand

Kylemore chapel

Lough gur circle and I

Bodhram shop at Roundstone

Kylemore group photo

Sheep on the road Dingle

Weaving with Joe Hogan

Dingle holding a baby lamb

Oldwood from the water

Larches new friends

Full harvest moon on the Dingle

Trail through the Oldwood

Lough Nafooey Morning walk

Guinness stew dinner

Sendoff by Mairead from Innishear

Oldwood ancient oak

Canopy of the Oldwood

Farmers market mushrooms

Innisheer views thatch and piebald

Oldwood oak and lake

Crios weaving and tea with Mairead

Lough Gur

Weaving the base

Final Group shot Killarney

Final group photo Killarney

Woolen mill spinning on the old loom

Burren Perfumery

3 Leenane village and beach

Lough Gur Center w Bryan

Happy weavers Criobs complete

Baskets left behind to follow us home

Oldwood exploring

Beehive huts view

Boat ride to the Oldwood

Cooking up Hedgerow Jelly and catsup

Cascade through the Oldwood

Basketry group photo

Lough Nafooey morning walk

Last dinner out Celtic Whiskey & Larder

Seaweed at low tide Leenane

Boatman Dermot and Ross Castle

Hazel Cottage Connemara

Lough gur circle and I

Beehive huts

Woolen mill learning the drop spindle

Tree tunnels everywhere

Pot oven bread w Mairead

Mairead Sharry and crios weaving

Basketry studio

St Brigids well

Happy Weavers

On our way to the Oldwood

Magical trail into ancient oakwood

Killarney Hedgerow Harvests

Rock of Cashel

Farmers market cheeses

Amazing trees of the oldwood

Micheal and creel

Mouganhead harbour

Home cooked dinner

Crios Mairead and Heidi

Burren rock formation

Fairy woodland in the Oldwood

Kylemore view of Connemara

Hedgerow harvesting crabapple

Oldwood yew tree

Teaching a wale

Oldwood ancient oak

Holding a baby lamb

Carrowmore dolman and crows

Stonehouse best apple pie ever

Island on Loch Lein

Ancient Yew grove on limestone

The Burren and Heidi

Curraughs at Innisheer

Woolen mill natural dyes

Our Crios Bands

The Burren and Lana

Mouganhead

The Burren Dolman

Oldwood ancient oaks, holly and moss

Lough Nafooey cottages 2

Loug gur entrance way

View from Queen Maeves Cairn

Waterfall cottage Connemara

Killarney cottage and lodge

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