Looking down from observation level into the Céide Fields visitor centre is like looking into an old well somehow both shiny new and steeped in history. From the bottom the ancient tree from the bog rises from gnarled roots like some old rusty needle ready to impale any poor soul unfortunate enough to slip and […]
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For thousands of years this tree lay buried deep in an Irish bog high upon a clifftop looking out over the Northern Atlantic ocean. How easily it could have lay there undisturbed for thousands of years more. Or just easily it may have become some peat cutter’s winter firewood giving up its physical existence to […]
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If this really were a cage then is the man in it the keeper? He may as well be as he locked the door and made sure I descended back down into the Céide Fields Visitor Centre below. The centre provides a rich interpretive experience of a Stone Age farmed landscape which dates around five […]
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