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Roofing old shed

Saturday 09/08/2014 Richie

Roofing old shed in Allihies on the Beara peninsula. These old stone sheds need looking after so that the Irish countryside retains some of its farming heritage. Easy to knock down an old shed and rebuild a bigger and better one, but that means we lose some of the stone work that used to be so common in the old days. This shed only needed one side doing as the other side was replaced a few years ago as it receives more of the oncoming weather. Just need a nice fine day to repair the concrete at each end of the roof.

Roofing old shed

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Gracies Art show Allihies Mine Museum

Thursday 08/05/2014 Richie

Gracies Art show, Allihies Mine Museum, today on the 8th of May 2014. It was a great success, an almost sell out show with only two pictures left on sale for the duration of the show. The show will last for another three weeks. Gracie did her work with Clara at Co-Action a centre which helps people from all areas of life on the Beara, one of the peninsulas on the south west coast of Ireland.

Gracies Art show Allihies Mine Museum

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Beara Motorcycling

Saturday 19/04/2014 Richie

Beara Motorcycling a 220 km route that takes in the Beara peninsula and inland towards kilgarvan Ballingeary and Durrus, done on a nice Easter Saturday with my friend Chris from xrvireland.org , leaving Allihies and taking the quickest route on the North side of the Beara to Kenmare and a short stop in Café Moka for breakfast. It was busy in Kenmare so we headed off sharpish up the main road towards Kilgarvan and further, and then took a twisted set of boreens to Kealkill and further on to Durrus, the aim being to cross the countryside and getting to Durrus avoiding Bantry. Of course it takes a lot longer but some stunning scenery and roads. Cup of tea in Durrus and then a blast back to Allihies on the south side of the Beara. Nice day out took 2 hours to ride the 80KM from Kenmare to Durrus only stopping for some photos.