Murphys Woollen Hall. There’s a built over Tudor House still there.
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Rural Intelligencer I speak fox.. another happy day. Wary of a horsebox selling “artisan pizza”, In remission (again)🤞 6ft over. massive fan of anaesthetic Count not, waste not, the hours of the clock.
Old Ballyragget Bridge previously the main road over the Nore. Ten arches with five over the river proper with angled cutwaters; floodwater channels and a millrace.
Portico which is actually cast concrete but you'd have to be right up against it to realise its not granite. So contrary to the naysayers a bag of cement in the right hands is a wonderous thing. The building itself was built in 1753.
In measured hundred weight and penny pound— The Ned Kellys of petrol pumps and milk churns Ballyragget Co. Kilkenny
‘Lady Margaret’s Chair’ known as the ‘Wishing Chair.’ is at the top. Folklore says if you sat in the chair your wish would be granted but...... anything unjust wished for rebounds on the wisher. Always surrounded by crows, I've never seen it without them.
"The Inner Light" 12th century Romanesque doorway St. James's Church Castledermot, Co. Kildare
So strength first made a way; Then beauty flow'd, Castledermot Franciscan Friary circa 1247.
Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence.
Lath & plaster ceiling Lady's Well Church 1811. Two disagreeing sides of the parish built competing churches but by 1892 the bishop closed Ladyswell. Every August 15th (Lady Day) the locals opened its doors & lit candles on the altar —a tradition that continued well into the mid-20th century
at an event once where a magician picked me out of the audience and lobbed an orange (it was part of the trick) from 50m which I caught cleanly one-handed with my bad arm (I had a child in the other) not once but TWICE. the gasps and applause I received were about 50% better than poor Fantasmo got
Gail Simone@gailsimone.bsky.social · 3w agoOkay, my QUESTION OF THE DAY is… What is your weirdest actual accomplishment? Not the biggest necessarily…but the weirdest?
Didn't I come to bring you a sense of wonder? Good friends to your door be sent, and your heart be well content with what the day may leave behind. Time be good and Life be kind.
My G.G.G Grandmother moved from this house across the fields to marry my G.G.G. Grandfather bringing the fields with her as a dowry.
William Hartford of Grange in the County of Kilkenny built this vault And entombed therein lies the body of Mrs Catherine Wilkinson the mother of his wife ANNE. She died September 16th 1797 aged 70 years
Harbour Street Tullamore Co. Offaly c.1902. Incredibly we know the names of the two children– that’s Alo Johnson on the left and Peggy Ryan on the right. Hopefully life was good to them.
1545 Roger Ascham -lamented character types “never ceasynge piddlelynge about your bowe and shaftes when they be well” There’s still a similar character in every workplace in the country.
Wilhelm Tell Fail
ALT: Wilhelm Tell Fail
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Puss has a terrible habit of bringing in live mice for colosseum like kill performances. There was incredible drama in my absence today when one ran under the sofa still didn’t end well…
Let the food speak for itself we do things differently— "An ethically-raised, dry-aged heritage Angus reserve, massaged with a Himalayan pink sea salt crust and kissed with a foraged black garlic and red wine reduction. Served on a bespoke, in-house brioche pillow."
What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare. A poor life this if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare.
a dollop of tomato sauce for sweetness and that extra tang nomnomnom
