Abandoned Ireland
February 5, 2012 12:33 PM   Subscribe

Tarquin Blake photographs the abandoned castles, houses, forts and mines of Ireland. I'm fairly sure I've come across Rhincrew Abbey and the Lost Mines once or twice in my travels in Skyrim ...
posted by GallonOfAlan (7 comments total) 19 users marked this as a favorite
 
I'm pretty sure I've been to Moorehall, or at least a building similar to it, and based on my experience when I went to Ireland in the early 90s, there are tons of abandoned, burned out buildings that are similar - many having been in that state since the early days of the Irish revolution in the early 1900s or the Black and Tan war. I imagine that some of those places were renovated or rehabilitated during the recent real estate boom in Ireland, but Tarquin Blake is still going to have a ton of source material.

Walking down towards the basement of Moorehall (or whatever building it was, accessible from the exterior), I got the most urgent sense of foreboding I've ever felt. I'm not really a believer in ghosts or anything, but it was pretty spooky.
posted by LionIndex at 1:19 PM on February 5, 2012


This is great, THANKS! During our visit to Northern Ireland in the early '90s my wife and I noted that nearly every field or cow pasture seemed to contain a ruin of some type, but these are spectacular.
posted by Ron Thanagar at 1:25 PM on February 5, 2012


Oh, my. I can tell I'll be spending a lot of time looking at this. Thanks for pointing it out.

(I lived in England for a few years and despite never going to Ireland, this all looks familiar to me as well. I'm reminded of a lot of the abbeys that were mined for houses and left with a few walls intact.)
posted by immlass at 1:34 PM on February 5, 2012


This is awesome.

Great pictures and the stories behind them.
posted by psycho-alchemy at 3:18 PM on February 5, 2012


Beautiful stuff. It's going to take me a while to get through this.

Especially when every other place has me wanting to move in, fix it up, and stay in the green isle.
posted by BlueHorse at 8:23 PM on February 5, 2012


A castle was attacked by Cromwell's troops in 1649 and never lived in again... and it is still there. I mean, 363 years and it is still a recognizable edifice. For some reason, I find that astounding.
posted by TWinbrook8 at 4:00 AM on February 6, 2012


I'm in Ireland with time to spare now and again, so I'll definately try to check out some of these sites. There's no directions given, but I expect most of those can be found with a bit of research.
posted by Harald74 at 5:32 AM on February 6, 2012


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