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...
@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
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.
Yep. A bit more info, for the few interested
...but it is believed to have been built on the site of an old castle, one attacked by Cromwell's men...
On a separate note, I love that website, @Seth Brundle
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.
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
Derryounce lakes this morning
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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
The exit point onto Barry's boreen, 😃
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
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 😃
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@Large bottle small glass What an excellent post. I actually laughed out loud at
I'm going to try and work that anecdote into a class🤔
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.
It's a stud farm, I think. They tend to look after their hedgerows well (at least up here)
Dear Sir,
Is this a record?
Mise le Meas
M Bastarder
A gate from the wrong side of the tracks
Testing out the new, now cancelled, greenway.
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.
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.
When you say flew...🤔
Okay, So I didn't, my drone did.
😁😁😁
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.
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)
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.
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.
Someone smarter than me probably wouldn't have ventured up to Ticknock today.
They did and they parked like dicks!
if you cannot see a double yellow because of snow, does it exist?
(and yes, i can see the no parking sign on a pole!)
