Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyaltov Pass Incident, Donnie Eichar
I first came across the Dyaltov Pass incident some time ago on Wikipedia, probably by following a link on the Wiki page “List of unusual deaths” The incident saw the…
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Castletownroche, Co. Cork – labyrinths, dinosaurs, and spies.
At the labyrinthos site article about Irish labyrinths, I came across a discussion of a labyrinth no longer visible but nevertheless preserved in a farmhouse in Castletownroche, Co Cork: A further…
Another note on whales and silence from Tim Severin
I blogged this paragraph from The Brendan Voyage – but here is something rather different from In Search of Moby Dick: “Not everything matched the old whaling lore. I was startled…
Putting obscure places on the YouTube map
For a while, I have made artlessly shakey phone videos in a range of obscure, mainly Irish locations, and uploaded them to YouTube. There’s the “jumping church” of Ardee :…
Atlas Maior of 1665 / Philip’s Universal Atlas of the World. TLS 10th February 2006
Originally published in the TLS – original link available only to subscribers. With thanks to Maren Meinhardt for supplying me with the printed text. This is one of those pieces…
Robert MacFarlane’s “Landmarks” and the literature of nature
I should love Robert MacFarlane’s “Landmarks”, but it is proving strangely difficult to get through. Normally I reserve any kind of reviewing judgment on books until I have completely finished…
Côte de Granit Rose and Magheragallon
The Pink Granite Coast of Brittany, along Ploumanac’h is an enchanting, strange landscape. My then two year old leapt to his heart content up and down boulders, perhaps to a degree…
The Jumping Church of Ardee, Co Louth.
This is a video I took a few years back of the “Jumping Church” of Kildemock, near Ardee, Co Louth. Rather embarrassingly, part two never appeared. Not far…
