Showing posts with label Country Tyrone. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Country Tyrone. Show all posts

Monday, August 27, 2012

August 27, 2012

Gortin

Gortin
The little town of Gortin from the Gortin Glen Forest Park. Gortin has come a long way from the 1840s Gortin when a writer described the surrounding scenery, though bold, as "generally destitute of beauty from the want of wood, which is found only at Beltrim, a residence surrounded by young and thriving plantations". Gortin, County Tyrone, Ulster, Northern Ireland, (an Goirtín, Contae Thír Eoghain, Ulaidh, Tuaisceart Éireann), August 26, 2012. f/6.3, 1/160 second, ISO 200.

Sunday, August 26, 2012

August 26, 2012

County Tyrone

"Green as Far as the Eye Can See"
No question why Ireland is known as the Emerald Island. All the way to the heather covered hills in the far distance, everything is some shade of green! Dunnamanagh (Donemana), County Tyrone, Ulster, Northern Ireland, (Dún na Manach, Contae Thír Eoghain, Ulaidh, Tuaisceart Éireann), August 26, 2012. f/8, 1/250 second, ISO 200.

Donaghedy Parish Church of St. James
Donaghedy Parish Church of St. James in the small village of Donemana. The village was established in the early 17th century as part of the Plantation of Ulster, instigated by James I in 1609. Land in the area was granted to John Drummond who established the village; building a bawn (an enclosed, fortified farmyard, designed as a place of refuge for settlers in case of attack), 10 wicker-work houses, and a watermill for grinding corn. Dunnamanagh (Donemana), County Tyrone, Ulster, Northern Ireland, (Dún na Manach, Contae Thír Eoghain, Ulaidh, Tuaisceart Éireann), August 26, 2012. f/9, 1/320 second, ISO 200.


Brilliant green fields with the heather covered hills in the background basking in the broken sunshine of a beautiful late-summer day. Ballynamallaght, County Tyrone, Ulster, Northern Ireland, (Contae Thír Eoghain, Ulaidh, Tuaisceart Éireann), August 26, 2012. f/8, 1/250 second, ISO 200.

Omagh

Sacred Heart Catholic Church
Sacred Heart Catholic Church. Omagh, County Tyrone, Ulster, Northern Ireland, (an Ómaigh, Contae Thír Eoghain, Ulaidh, Tuaisceart Éireann), August 26, 2012. f/9, 1/400 second, ISO 200.


Detail from Sacred Heart Catholic Church. Omagh, County Tyrone, Ulster, Northern Ireland, (an Ómaigh, Contae Thír Eoghain, Ulaidh, Tuaisceart Éireann), August 26, 2012. f/6.3, 1/640 second, ISO 200.


Steeple detail from Sacred Heart Catholic Church. Omagh, County Tyrone, Ulster, Northern Ireland, (an Ómaigh, Contae Thír Eoghain, Ulaidh, Tuaisceart Éireann), August 26, 2012. f/7.1, 1/200 second, ISO 200.