Steve Rogers Photography

13/03/2023

Here is a spin up to Knocknashee, one of Irelands biggest Hill Forts at 700 x 320 metres.
The fort is 700 metres long and 320 metres wide and is enclosed by two earth and stone ramparts covering an area of 53 acres.
It has 2 cairns, one is open, the second one was never opened. Remains of about 50 huts can be seen. After excavations in 2017, they found out that the roundhouses are from the late Bronze Age, about 3,000 years old, so they came 2,000 years after the cairns.

Cnoc na Sí, or Knocknashee, Co Sligo.The Hill of the Fairies.

12/07/2021

Michael and Matt.

09/02/2021

23/09/2020

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16/07/2020

Feathered dinosaurs.

12/07/2020

Matt and Michael.

03/06/2020

Firefighter.

28/05/2020

Taking my unemployment seriously, I have delighted myself by joining Enniscrone Golf Club for the first time. Such a beautiful and well maintained course, with a great practice area and driving range to warm up in. Epic scenery, lots of fresh air.
Gonna get fitter, more sunburnt and a lot more active for the next few months until the ball starts rolling again.
If anyone is up for a game do let me know.
Best wishes to y’all.

10/04/2020

Sachertorte!

31/03/2020

Yummy buns.

29/03/2020

From a big day in Mullaghmore in October 2010.

19/03/2020

Up in the Bricklieves
the Carrowkeel Cairns sit quietly
watching the world go by.

13/02/2020

Tobernalt Holy Well, Sligo.
The name Tobernalt is derived from the Irish-Tober an Alt meaning well of the cliff. The natural spring well is beautifully situated in a small wooded area at the base of Cairns Hill.

08/02/2020

I had the good fortune to visit Inis Oírr last week.
Its fantastic. Epic stone walls, lovely walks, with an interesting history - its friendly and easy out there. Peaceful.
Was going to put up just one picture from the visit, but fekkit, here is a heap of them.
Stayed at Óstán Inis Oírr , really nice room, lovely food. Looking forward to going back in summer.
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25/01/2020

A Hawk at the Hawkswell, Tullaghan Hill Holy Well, near Coolaney.
This well features in a number of medieval sources. In the year 1186 AD Giraldus Cambrensis referred to this well as one of the wonders of Ireland. He says that the well imitates the ebb and flow of the tides even though the sea is 2km away and the well is on top of a mountain. It is also mentioned in the Book of Ballymote (c.1391 AD), which refers to it having the property of ebbing and flowing like the distant sea. References in other medieval texts talk of it having salt and fresh water at different times.
It is said that the water could on occasion make a person immortal. This legend formed the basis for WB Yeats play ‘At The Hawk’s Well’, in which an old man spends his life beside the well waiting for the sudden and brief splash of water which will make him immortal. The Hawks Rock is a hill beside Tubber Tullaghan and Yeats combined the two in the plays title “At the Hawks Well”.

18/12/2019

Denise, the castle, the moonlight, the stars.

06/12/2019

At Carrowkeel, and inside Cairn K.

19/11/2019

Herons saying hello
tides coming in
its all going on.

28/10/2019

It was a grim end for the crow,
squawking and spluttering upside down in the puddle,
indignant with the injustice
and the surprise of it.

18/10/2019

The river is such a great natural wildlife corridor.

16/10/2019

Love this time of year.

30/09/2019

The spectacular Enniscrone Golf Club.

26/09/2019

Great live music in the Hawkswell last night - Seamie O Dowd launched his new Live CD. Such an entertaining and skilled all round musician.
The CD is belting out here in Carrigeens all morning. Love it.

23/09/2019

Ruby :)

12/09/2019

There goes the Kale

There goes the Kale...
Cabbage white butterflies fly from February until mid-November.
After hatching, larvae feed on the underside of their plant's leaves during their first week, and feed from the topside during their second week.
About 2.5 weeks after hatching, the larva begins to pupate. It attaches itself to the underside of a leaf or stem and spins a silk pad.
Pupae can hibernate through winter while attached to the plant.
The mustard oil from the host plant makes the larva distasteful to birds.

07/09/2019

Cannonball Run just went past the house - great craic - 190 cars - every car seems to have its own personality.
Cannonball Ireland

02/09/2019

the Slug

Aha... so thats whos been eating the mushrooms

(a timelapse, 174 photos over 35 minutes squeezed into 11 seconds)

26/08/2019

Croagh Patrick Sunset

Twice a year (April 18 and August 24), when standing at the Boheh Stone, the sun sets at the summit of Croagh Patrick and rolls down its northern shoulder.
Then the cloud rolled by.

22/08/2019

Deep in the woods today, in Cullentra Millennium Forest, beside Inishfree, at Lough Gill.
Cullentra Wood is a long established woodland mainly of oak, with ash, hazel, holly, mountain ash, cherry, birch and alder. The rare strawberry tree is found here, this is its most northern station in Europe and one of only three places where it is found growing naturally in Ireland.

15/08/2019

Great fun and wonderful people at the Tubbercurry Old Fair Day yesterday.