This is a landscape that I feel in my cells … the bright green fields of the Emerald Isle. My ancestor Edward Mulligan was a 19 year old groom in this land when he was convicted of “stealing from the bleach green” and shipped out to Australia as a convict in 1827.
Green fields at Kilgraney, Muine Bheag, County Carlow, Ireland
We have traced him to the old church of Lorum, at Kilgraney. Sadly there are no records of his birth even though we know his parents were Bridget and William. So this is my dead-end, my green fields, my old church.
no sign of Mulligans in the graveyard
Looking from Google Earth you can see quite a few training tracks for horses in the area, perhaps one where his horses were run. How is this for ‘landscape’?
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Amazing Historical places you have there my friend 🙂
Beautiful landscape…love the remnants of the castle too…
I understand your feeling the landscape in your cells, when I first went to Africa even though it wasn’t to Nigeria I felt instantly at home and then in my ancestral village the sense of belonging was overwhelming.
Amazing isn’t it? our bodies recognise those places instantly and kind of sigh with relief at homecoming 😀
beautiful landscapes…
🙂
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Your landscape looks so beautiful and green.
So green!!
It’s so bleak and dreary and brown here in Wisconsin!
Love the old graveyard.
all that brilliant green is scrumptious.
Love the view from the top!