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Hmm, I'm not sure the artist has seen, heard or read Waiting for Godot.

#StreetArt #Enniskillen #Fermanagh #SamuelBeckett #WaitingForGodot

Professionally painted on a black gable wall is the text "Tomorrow everything will be better - Samuel Beckett", alongside a colourful stylised portrait of the playwright.

Wild strawberry blossom.

#SilentSunday #BloomScrolling #WildFlowers #Fermanagh

Three small strawberry flowers, each with five white petals, set against green foliage.

Fermanagh is the anglicised rendering of the original Irish Fear Manach, which means "no public transport, ever"

#ireland #fermanagh #rail 🇮🇪🚝

Map of the proposed all Ireland rail network to be operational, it is said, by 2050. Several parts of the country have little.coverage, most especially County Fermanagh and the surrounding areas.

"Ye wouldn't be long gettin' the ankles frostbit off ye". #LoughErne #Fermanagh

View across a calm lalke on a frosty, Misty morning.

The hall at Florence Court near Enniskillen, Co. Fermanagh, Ireland. c1890s. The National Library of Ireland. No known copyright restrictions.

Florence Court is the inspiration for Greene Hall in The Fitzgeralds of Dublin Series.

#Fermanagh #Ireland #OldPhotosOfIreland #19thCentury #FlorenceCourt

The Hall at Florence Court near Enniskillen, Co. Fermanagh, Ireland. c1890s. The National Library of Ireland. No known copyright restrictions.

Grasses around lower Lough Erne, #Fermanagh

#streetphotography

Grasses and a few small yellow flowers at sunset

On this day in 1770, the fiddler Denis McCabe drowned in Lough Erne, Co. Fermanagh. The Journals show his violin-shaped gravestone, which tells the tale of his demise: https://bit.ly/mccabe1770

Find out more about James Caldwell at the Dictionary of Irish Biography: https://doi.org/10.3318/dib.001389.v1

Learn about the Journals at https://MemsDead.com

#OTD #Genealogy #IrishGenealogy #LocalHistory #IrishLocalHistory #MastoDaoine #Fermanagh @norniron @genealogy@chirp.social @genealogy@a.gup.pe @histodons

Photograph of a violin-shaped gravestone along with a transcript of the gravestone inscription.

I’m on Devenish Island, in Lower Lough Erne, Co. #Fermanagh for #TombTuesday this week.

These are some of the graves you can see on the monastic site. The cross marker is found in the graveyard bedside the ruins of the priory, and the stone tomb - which is known as “St. Molaise's bed” - can be found inside the remains of the church below the round tower.

http://www.megalithicireland.com/Devenish%20Island.html

A low, stone tomb carved from a single block. The end nearest the camera is squared off, and the end farthest from the camera is slightly rounded. A small ledge that the person’s head would have rested on can just be seen at the rounded end. There is no lid on the tomb.

The ground around the tomb is covered with bright green grass, and two stone block walls mark the corner of the room the tomb was built in.

Looking from behind a low, stone cross with rounded-off edges marks the head of a grave slab set into the grass in front of it. The cross is almost entirely covered with splotches of lichens in white, grey, greeny-brown and black.

Other grave markers are visible behind this grave, and the blue water of the Lough can be seen beyond that.

I’m revisiting #Fermanagh for #StandingStoneSunday this week. This is Drumskinny, with its stone circle, aligned stone row, and adjoining cairn.

The stones may be short (it’s fairly boggy up there, so decent-sized stones may have been hard to come by), but the site is a nice one to visit, and there are some great views to be had from it. It can be muddy getting there, and one visit we had to dodge cows.

See here for more site details https://www.communities-ni.gov.uk/heritage-sites/drumskinny-stone-circle-cairn-and-alignment

Two thirds of the view is green landscape, one third is pale blue sky. There’s a stone circle made from low, grey stones in the centre of view.

None of the stones are more than half a metre in height. The centre of the circle is covered with loose hardcore that looks very modern. Behind the circle, running horizontally in the frame of the photo is a wooden fence.

Between the spot the photo was taken from and the circle is a low, circular mound covered with green grass. An irregular stone kerb is partially visible through the longer grass growing around it.

A view of the site taken from the right hand side of the previous image. This one shows the same circle and cairn, but also the stone row alignment.

The row is made up of small stones, no more than 30cm tall, and one end of it reaches the cairn’s kerb. The surface level of the site makes the stone row and circle look as though they are dug down into the soil.

For #StandingStoneSunday I’ve travelled to #Fermanagh. This is the larger carved stone figure found in Caldragh Churchyard on Boa Island.

When I first read about the figure, it was described as a Janus figure, but it’s not Roman, it’s Celtic.

It’s thought to have a male side and a female side, and while you can’t make out the differences clearly from my photos, there are some great photos here on the Irish Megaliths site: http://www.irishmegaliths.org.uk/zCaldragh.htm

#Fermanagh

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