November 28, 2005

Looking towards Mayo


RTE's 5-7 Live news programme sent their reporter Philip Boucher Hayes out to find some snow on Friday, to see how it was affecting people. Except he couldn't find any. "Soft townie", I scoffed, as the deluge of calls and SMSes flooded into the programme with much the same message.


Except that on Saturday, when I set off to photograph some snow covered hils, I couldn't find any either. Picture above shows a mountain that doesn't have a name on any of my maps - it sits on one side of the narrow strip of Lough Mask (also visible behind the mountain) where the county boundary of Galway and Mayo meet. The thin strip of blue at its base is the Finney river, that links Lough Nafooey to Lough Mask - the Finney also marks the county boundary. On the left, under cloud, is the grim bulwark of Maumtrasna and Buckaun. A heavy hailstorm covered the top of those mountains, and about 10 minutes after I took this shot, had covered me too.


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Posted by Monasette at November 28, 2005 02:10 AM
Comments

You were up late John. I guess I'm later though. Great shot. Love the height in it too, great viewpoint!

Posted by: Sean McCormack at November 28, 2005 05:10 AM

if it hasn't a name, you get to name it, since you 'discovered' it. what you going to call it and why?

Posted by: bob at December 1, 2005 09:23 PM

I often find so much land like this very daunting. Nothing around for miles. Great view though. Love the large amount of sky and huge clouds.

Posted by: Phil at December 4, 2005 12:26 AM