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2017 Ireland Ethnobotany Exploration Photos

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

Mouganhead harbour

Beehive huts view

Our B&B and Cottage

Oldwood ancient oak

Amazing trees of the oldwood

Seaweed at low tide Leenane

Micheal and creel

Inch strand

Doolin session at O' connors

Killarney cottage and lodge

Burren Perfumery

Ancient Yew grove on limestone

On our way to the Oldwood

Woolen mill learning the drop spindle

Roundstone bog and gorse

Curraughs at Innisheer

Stoking the fire Mairead

Basketry group photo

Hazel Cottage Connemara

Canopy of the Oldwood

Larches new friends

Lough gur circle and I

Baskets left behind to follow us home

Waterfall cottage Connemara

Larches sesssion

Burren rock formation

St Brigids well

Our Crios Bands

Kylemore view of Connemara

Lough Nafooey Morning walk

Weaving with Joe Hogan

Home cooked dinner

View from Queen Maeves Cairn

Magical trail into ancient oakwood

Roundstone bog exploration

Teaching a wale

Lough gur circle and I

Mouganhead

Lough Gur Center w Bryan

Crios making with Mairead

hedgerow harvest processing

Last dinner out Celtic Whiskey & Larder

Full harvest moon on the Dingle

Stonehouse restaurant Dingle

Boat ride to the Oldwood

Dingle Peninsula

Cooking up Hedgerow Jelly and catsup

Basketry studio

3 Leenane village and beach

Kylemore chapel

Woolen mill spinning on the old loom

Hedgerow harvesting crabapple

Sheep on the road Dingle

Loug gur entrance way

Killarney cottage- roasting chicken

Boatman Dermot and Ross Castle

Weaving the base

Lough Gur

Lough Nafooey morning walk

Oldwood yew tree

Innisheer stone walls

Coming ashore from Loch Leine

Wild mushrooms for soup

Prepping dinner

Holding a baby lamb

Fairy woodland in the Oldwood

Cliffs of Moher with Innishear in the background

Oldwood exploring

The Burren Dolman

Yew tree with seat I sat in for a while

Tree tunnels everywhere

Woolen mill natural dyes

Kylemore walled garden

Cascade through the Oldwood

Dingle holding a baby lamb

Mairead fireplace on Innisheer

Beehive huts

Lough Nafooey cottages 2

Dinner at Castlebar

Pot oven bread w Mairead

Oldwood ancient oaks, holly and moss

Leenane woolen mill museum activities - Copy

Blasket Islands

Sendoff by Mairead from Innishear

Crios weaving and tea with Mairead

Rock of Cashel

Stonehouse best apple pie ever

Final group photo Killarney

Oldwood oak and lake

The Burren- rocks and plants

The Burren and Lana

Farmers market mushrooms

Farmers market cheeses

Happy weavers Criobs complete

Killarney Hedgerow Harvests

Crios Mairead and Heidi

Guinness stew dinner

Lamb roast dinner

Bodhram shop at Roundstone

Carrowmore dolman and crows

Full harvest moon on the Dingle

Kylemore group photo

Mairead Sharry and crios weaving

Oldwood oaks bracken ivy and moss

Oldwood from the water

B&B breakfast room

Final Group shot Killarney

Our Baskets

Roundstone bog view with group

Willow in workshop

Oldwood ancient oak

Island on Loch Lein

Trail through the Oldwood

The Burren and Heidi

Dingle road- This is two way

Yew grove and Heidi

Happy Weavers

Lough Gur circle

Innisheer views thatch and piebald

Lough Nafooey morning walk

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