We have all kinds of castles in Ireland, from the tiny to the large. The large mind you have tended to survive a bit better than the small ones though. Earlier this week, I was out after a church marked on the Ordnance Survey map, the county I was in doesn't matter, 'cos I could have found what I did find anywhere in Ireland. This particular church was close to an old castle, ok, ses I to myself, should be easy enough to find. Not so! Sometimes, when looking for these 'buildings' or remnants of, you don't see them very easily, you have to keep an eye out for the markers - the walls, the Yew trees or - the ivy! Ivy is a great thing for covering these old buildings, it just loves them to bits - and literally to bits. So, after walking through a totally overgrown lane which I was sure was going to bring me to my destination but ended up as a dead end, I took to the fields and this is what I eventually found - or rather the first of my photos, once I saw this I knew I had found something. But what is that something - the church or the castle?! Later on, I did work out which structure, but this is the kind of thing we find when looking for these type of old structures. The kind which won't be there any more in a few years, thanks to the ivy.
I have more photos taken on the search for this site on my Graveyard blog at
Irish Graveyard Place/
