Another lunchtime sandwich run for me. Nearby you can pop out of a small country road to an old, but still running, railway crossing. Immediately behind are the cranes of the incessant build and expansion of the Intel FAB. The Intel corporation is a great employer of the area and generates a significant wedge of Ireland's GDP. Over 20 years ago I worked for Rockwell Automation and used to take £1m PUNT orders from Intel for Programmable Logic Controllers, my bonus checks were great when Intel went shopping!
PUNT = the Irish Pound, which ceased to be legal tender with the adoption of the Euro in 2002.
Nice shots Tev.
I have some former Intel Corporation Irish comrades living in Cork. Intel is a great company indeed.
That is quite the ADV bike Wisedrum.
Closed a deal at work late morning and treated myself to a 100km spin out to the Hill of Tara for lunch, well soup and a sandwich anyways. Tara was the chief pagan sanctuary of early Ireland which started in the late fourth millennium before the birth of Christ. It is like a lot of Irish natural sights; you just rock up and walk in. No theme park or commercialisation, you can walk around for free and get a coffee at the café there.
The church (St Patrick's) is a modern 1822 build over the remnants of a church granted a charter in the 1190's.
A group of calling themselves the British Israelites conducted a series of amateur excavations at Rath na Seanadh (The Rath of Synods) between 1899 and 1902. They mistakenly believed the Ark of the Covenant was buried there, based on myths and legends connecting the Bible, Egypt and Ireland. These myths were probably designed by the early Irish monks to draw connections between the Bible and the prehistory of Ireland.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hill_of_Tara
Wow, what a beautiful ride! Can't treat myself to such a pastoral ride when I close a deal, but sure wish I could!
Oooo Tev, very nice. Crisp snaps. Can anyone read some of those head stones anymore?
Stunning photos and interesting commentary, Tev.
