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The road to Gethsemani

It pretty much rained for every minute of the day on March 10th, about 4 Saturdays ago. I didn't get a single picture of Connemara, but on the way home, I swung up a laneway near Glencorrib to Moyne Graveyard (not to be confused with Moyne Friary, in north Mayo).

At the gate is the statue pictured above. In the cemetery, there's the ruins of an old church, some headstones and two standing stones (see below) - it was a custom to place coffins between the two stones before burial (according to Cary Meehan's "The Traveller's Guide to Sacred Ireland").

Camera= Canon 5D, lens= Canon 24-105@28mm, ISO=250, aperture=f8, speed=1/100 sec.

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Posted by Monasette at April 5, 2007 08:26 PM