Photos taken on your cycle.

Seth Brundle · 31-01-2023 08:16PM

Headed out earlier following a frustrating mornings work, and decided to head over towards Rathangan on my good bike.

Stopped to take in Feighcullen Church which is a lovely gothic design. Pity it's deteriorating from the elements and the local vandals.

I also stopped at Hendy's Castle in Ballyteigue. I'd love to go inside sometime...

For the Grand canal thread followers, it looks like the reconstruction of the Four Pots near Digby Bridge is coming along nicely...

cletus · 01-02-2023 08:12AM

@Seth Brundle as far as I know, the owner of the castle lives in Monasterevin, but some of the family live in the house behind the castle.

I don't think they open it to visitors or the general public

Roadtoad · 01-02-2023 10:11PM

Ballyteague Castle is a folly, younger than the canal that runs alongside. Built by Aylmer, who built the tower on the hill of Allen.

You're welcome.

cletus · 01-02-2023 10:16PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120189327#Comment_120189327

Yep. A bit more info, for the few interested

Seth Brundle · 01-02-2023 10:22PM

...but it is believed to have been built on the site of an old castle, one attacked by Cromwell's men...

https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4742166/4741322/4783933

cletus · 01-02-2023 10:28PM

On a separate note, I love that website, @Seth Brundle

magicbastarder · 01-02-2023 11:09PM

i was on the phone to my mum one day, and told her about that site; i found her old school and started reading out some entries to her, and she was amazed when she realised that the teacher in question had been her teacher - he'd taught her father, and herself.

JMcL · 02-02-2023 04:18PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120189404#Comment_120189404

I must resist delving into that as no work would be done - clicking my old primary school brought up the roll book from around 1940 signed by the then principal who I remember playing cards in our house when I were a lad - must have been well in his 80s at that stage

cletus · 19-02-2023 01:28PM

Derryounce lakes this morning

magicbastarder · 19-02-2023 05:07PM

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cletus · 26-02-2023 12:50PM

Sunday morning gravel/trail/all terrain/whatever

I'm no CX 'er so there was a nice bit of hike a bike. Still managed to get 6th overall in the segment out here. That may be a testament to a lack of people trying to cycle this 😂

No gates today

Large bottle small glass · 27-02-2023 10:02PM

The exit point onto Barry's boreen, 😃

cletus · 04-03-2023 11:42AM

Misjudged the cold this morning and ended up with very cold feet.

On the plus side, I got some surprise gravel

Not a particularly exciting picture, but coming down this lane, the English teacher in me couldn't help but think of Wordsworth

Large bottle small glass · 04-03-2023 12:14PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120312490#Comment_120312490

I once put nothing on a post graduate exam paper but the entirety of Wordsworth's poem(having learned it in 6th class).

All well and good but the course was Mechanics of Solids 3.

I was going in to collect an F having failed to divert sufficient time to that riveting course material, but I had to sit there for at least 45 mins.

The lecturer Tim Little had a habit of keeping his head to the ground walking around.

At the end of the poem I advised him to keep his head up and enjoy the Daffodils (spring semester exam).

Course leader mentioned my love of poetry at the end of year 😃

cletus · 04-03-2023 12:25PM

😂😂😂😂

@Large bottle small glass What an excellent post. I actually laughed out loud at

All well and good but the course was Mechanics of Solids 3.

I'm going to try and work that anecdote into a class🤔

Large bottle small glass · 04-03-2023 12:48PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120312614#Comment_120312614

That is nice piece of road with the daffodils, regularly cut hedge but decent height for wildlife and the farmers also has left some nice silver birch trees.

cletus · 04-03-2023 01:31PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120312690#Comment_120312690

It's a stud farm, I think. They tend to look after their hedgerows well (at least up here)

magicbastarder · 04-03-2023 08:36PM

Dear Sir,

Is this a record?

Mise le Meas

M Bastarder

CramCycle · 06-03-2023 09:16AM

A gate from the wrong side of the tracks

Testing out the new, now cancelled, greenway.

JMcL · 06-03-2023 05:14PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120319481#Comment_120319481

Is this the proposed Rosslare to Waterford greenway? I'd missed it was being canned - last I heard they were forging ahead with it. I always feel sorry for tourists on bikes coming off the ferry onto the sh1t show that is the N25 out of Rosslare.

wheelo01 · 06-03-2023 08:36PM

While I wasn't actually Cycling at the time, I cycled over to Sundrive Road Park and flew over the Cycling track.

Pity there wasn't any cycling going on, maybe I'll look up their program, and revisit at a later date.

cletus · 06-03-2023 09:01PM

When you say flew...🤔

wheelo01 · 06-03-2023 11:27PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120322486#Comment_120322486

Okay, So I didn't, my drone did.

cletus · 06-03-2023 11:31PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120323122#Comment_120323122

😁😁😁

CramCycle · 07-03-2023 07:50AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120321520#Comment_120321520

Latest word is that they want the line reopened rather than a greenway and they will work on the Enniscorthy - New Ross Greenway. I am not complaining either way as I would be happy with either. Both a train or Greenway make Waterford commutable for me. Personally I don't see it happening though as IR drove that line into the ground intentionally, the NTA might do a better job of timetabling though.

JMcL · 07-03-2023 02:55PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120323555#Comment_120323555

Yeah I believe the last few years had seriously low passenger numbers, not helped as you say by imbecilic timetabling. The relocation of the train station, new pedestrian bridge etc might make it a bit more viable than the current dumping off point on a particularly inhospitable roundabout (for any mode of transport)

CramCycle · 07-03-2023 03:59PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120325181#Comment_120325181

One journey to Waterford that left you late for most workplaces and another that left before most people would finish work, and then nothing at all for day passengers, it was intentional, much like their sale of the line into the port under the guise of it was a terrorist threat (with no Garda or security assessment, just the word of an IR employee). Anyway, rant over, until then I will give the full line a try on my MTB the next time, the CX bike was a shade bumpy.

DaveyDave · 10-03-2023 04:48PM

Not taken on a cycle but I got to take my mountain bike for a drive today...

Someone smarter than me probably wouldn't have ventured up to Ticknock today. West Dublin got a tiny dusting of snow overnight which was barely enough to stick to the car and was gone by noon so it's only when I was driving down the M50 I saw the snow on the mountains, even the road up to Ticknock was fine. It's only when I got to the car park I saw how bad it was.

I only continued up as I saw clear tyre tracks before anyone thinks I'm the type of person you always hear about getting stuck at Sally's Gap in their Qashqai/Tucson.

Didn't park anywhere with the risk of getting stuck, just stopped to the side where I wouldn't get stuck to get a few pictures.