A Picture Speaks a Thousand Words

Pictures of Laois and the Midlands

 

Slieve Bloom Mountains, Laois/Offaly.

Rosenallis Cross Slabs, Laois.

Cullahill Castle, Laois.

 

 

Roscrea Friary, North Tipperary.

Brownshill Portal Dolmen (Circa 2000-3000 B.C.), Carlow.

Castledermot 13th Century Friary, Kildare.

Medieval Romanesque Archway, St. James Church of Ireland, Castledermot, Kildare. 

 Inscription and Ogham, Roundtower, Clonmacnoise, Offaly.

 

Leap Castle, Offaly

Damer House and Castle, Roscrea, North Tipperary. 

Timahoe Roundtower, Ruins and Church, Timahoe, Laois. 

Coolbanagher Church ruins and Cross Slab (Shaen), Laois.

 Main Street, Stradbally, Laois.

Clonaslee Cross Slabs, Laois.

Portarlington Public Park, Laois/Offaly.

Charleville Castle, Tullamore, Offaly.

Ballyadams Castle, Laois.

Dysart Enos, Laois.

Ballyragget Castle, Kilkenny.

 The bucolic Slieve Bloom Mountains throughout the seasons...

 Our Strava Group Here :

Irish Midlands Cycling Group

Disinherited

I stand before the Book of Ballymote,

The Book of Leinster, the Leabhar Breac,and last,

That oldest, Leabhar na hUidhre -- tomes that hold

My people's history in a thousand ranns:

I cannot read a word.

I do not know the tongue my fathers spoke,

I cannot sing the songs my fathers sang.

I cannot read the books my fathers wrote;

Treasure on treasure in my eager hands:

I cannot read a word.

The tables of my race are here: old lore

And tale; poems our bards were proud to chant to chiefs...

How dare I name me Irish Poet?

Here is my heritage, and here I stand:

I cannot read a word.

Pádraig Ó Broin

1908 - 1967