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| This courtesy of Anne Lynch. A chance to see the ancient art of Hedge-laying! The Hedgerow Society is delighted to announce a Hedge laying demo next Saturday 18th Feb at Wimbletown along the Sli na Sceacha Walking Route. The teacher will be Mark McDowell, a member of the Irish Hedgelayers Organisation. You may have seen hedgelayers at work on [...] Amongst the many varying brilliant things that The Ballyboughal Hedgerow is one thing you can take for absolute granted is that it is a brilliant day out for any age or group of people. That aside there is always some form of a theme to them. The first walk of 2012 is themed 5 x 500 Year Old [...] Enjoy a wonderful morning in Ardgillan with Declan, acclaimed author of Wild Flowers book. Meet: Cafe in Ardgillan at 10.00 This is Ann Lynch talking to me on our Hedgerow outing last Sunday Grace Dieu Hedgerow [...] Yesterday I went walking with The Hedgerow Society through the lands of Grace Dieu, Ballyboughal. Grace Dieu Hedgerow Walk (mp3) The lands at Grace Dieu, Ballyboughal were once home to a Nunnery dating back to 1190 and its small village settlement. Although some stone work is visible above ground, a lot of it resides now below. Many thanks to [...] EVENT: GRACE DIEU WALK DATE AND TIME: Sunday 26th November, 2.00 With thanks to Jacinta Dwyer for use of her thesis [...] The hedgerow Walk took place on sunday just passed. Once again theree were a few new faces which was really great to see. I think it’s fair to say there’ll be a fair amount of jam made in the next few weeks. Of note to some was a tree with the initials B Mc C etched into [...] A copy and paste straight from the landscaping blog…. Magical orchard walk DATE: This SUNDAY 9th October You may want to bring a bag for your pickings and wellies! Any problems simply [...] I completely forgot about posting the Heritage Week 2011 images…. that whole work thing and doing this in ones spare time I guess. A huge thanks to Ann Lynch for what was a great event and also to John Maxwell [pictured above] who was our guide for the day. I’ve posted the rest of the pictures over on [...] Courtesy of National Heritage Week website, this is the only Heritage Week event noted for Ballyboughal. Details below….. Day/ Date: Sunday 28th August 2011 Anne Lynch asked me to note: Thank you for great support on August 7 walk. [...] Today the Ballyboughal Hedgerow Society walk took place, the third outing this year for me with the group. I’ve posted all of the days pictures over on the gardening [...] |
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