A ship departing Dublin Port as the last arcs of sunset course across South Dublin.
On the Sheep's Head Peninsula, several sheep heads stop and stare at me as I take pictures. It's a dark, overcast day, but something about their attitudes captures me more than the light of the scene. In the background you can see the Beara Peninsula, well known Cork tourist hotspot, though I didn't stop too long, being eaten alive by that peril of the Irish summer, midges.
Gougane Barra is, for want of a better word, a place in Ballingeary, West Cork. The building you see in the shot is St Finbarr's Oratory, the "Barra" after whom the place is named. It is a very peaceful setting in the right weather, popular with pilgrims and wedding parties, and is surrounded by a tree-laden national park. The lake around the oratory is actually formed from the River Lee, one of the main rivers of Cork City.
