Honeysuckle in Puck's Lane

Puck's Lane

The steep banks of this boreen harbour a great variety of flowers at this time of year. The road is known locally as Róidín a' Phúca, Puck's Lane.

Wild rose

Common spotted orchid

Croy Lodge

W.H. Maxwell, author of Wild Sports of the West, stayed here. The lodge is at the mouth of the Owenduff river.

Fluted columns, Owenduff river

Cow parsley

Homeri Opera

Sebastian Castalio's Homer, Basel, 1561

A field of irises

Old woodland track, Doon wood

Wood anemones, 31.3.2012, Doon Peninsula

Primrose

13.2.2012

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