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IrelandUpClose Robert Ardill & Cathy Ardill: IrelandUpClose Photography Robert Ardill and Cathy Ardill: We are both landscape photographers.

Robert is also a painter and Cathy a graphic designer. We have captured images of many parts of the world, especially in Europe, but in recent years we have focused almost exclusively on the Irish landscape. We are fascinated by the subtlety of the Irish scenery and the transience of the light. Ireland is a country of water, mists, clouds ... and bursts of sunlight. Every season is an entirely dif

ferent experience and so is every hour of the day. Dawn and dusk are particularly beautiful: over in minutes in the wintertime but long and lazy in the summertime when the nights last for only a few hours. We live in the lovely village of Slane in County Meath. The historic and beautiful river Boyne runs by our house. We are surrounded by ancient sites such as the megalithic tombs at Newgrange, Dowth and Knowth; The Hill of Slane, with the ruins of a 16th century Franciscan Monastery, looks down on the Boyne valley, Slane Castle and the wonderful 14th century Slane Bridge; to the East is the town of Drogheda and the Irish Sea; to the West the towns of Navan and Kells; to the South Dublin and Trim; to the North Antrim and the wild North Atlantic coast. We supply greeting cards and prints (framed and unframed) of our images worldwide. These are available from www.CardsOfIreland.com and www.IrelandUpClose.com

Robert Ardill on a photoshoot in Provence, France.
13/08/2015

Robert Ardill on a photoshoot in Provence, France.

OUR EXHIBITION AT BRU NA BOINNE (NEWGRANGE)This is our current exhibition at Bru na Boinne - runs from Juen 15th to July...
23/06/2013

OUR EXHIBITION AT BRU NA BOINNE (NEWGRANGE)

This is our current exhibition at Bru na Boinne - runs from Juen 15th to July 10th. If you are in the area, please drop by! ... I'll be here most days.

Robert

A frosty winter-morning view of the Boyne near the Newgrange megalithic burial mound.  The tree to the right is growing ...
08/12/2012

A frosty winter-morning view of the Boyne near the Newgrange megalithic burial mound. The tree to the right is growing on a weir. There are lovely reflections on the river in winter.
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West of Ireland: Mayo/Galway: Killary Harbour.A view of Killary Harbour at sunset with mist rolling in from the Atlantic...
14/08/2012

West of Ireland: Mayo/Galway: Killary Harbour.

A view of Killary Harbour at sunset with mist rolling in from the Atlantic. Mweelrea Mountain can be seen to the right of the image.

Killary Harbour is the only fjord in Ireland, carved out by glacial activity. It separates Mayo to the north (right of the picture) from Connemara in Galway to the south (left of the picture).

Mayo and Connemara have some of the most scenic landscapes and seascapes in Ireland and Killary Harbour is a fine example of this beauty.

http://www.irelandupclose.com/Image-of-Killary-Harbour--W42829--Ireland-Photos--Galway.php

IrelandUpCloseI was up on Slieve Gullion in Northern Ireland on the 23rd December with some friends. It's a 500m high hi...
27/12/2011

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I was up on Slieve Gullion in Northern Ireland on the 23rd December with some friends. It's a 500m high hill near Newry in south County Armagh, just north of the border with County Louth in the Republic. At the top is a wonderful megalithic passage tomb. Legend has it that the Cailleach Beara (a witch who transforms into a hare) tricked Finn McCool into jumping into the Mountain's lake, from which he emerges an old and withered man. The Fianna force the Cailleach Beara to restore Finn back to his former self (but his hair remains white as an old man for the rest of his life).

At 4:00pm the setting sun enters the chamber in the passage tomb. It's an experience I will never forget - we had given up hope that we would witness this but as if by magic a cloud that was covering the sun melted away and the wonderful golden light flooded the chamber. You can see some more photos here http://www.newgrange.com/slieve-gullion.htm

http://www.irelandupclose.com/Image-of-Limerick-Lough-Gur--T2662--Ireland-Photos--Limerick.php Lough Gur in County Limer...
05/12/2011

http://www.irelandupclose.com/Image-of-Limerick-Lough-Gur--T2662--Ireland-Photos--Limerick.php Lough Gur in County Limerick and the surrounding land is of world-importance as an archaeological site. There are visible remains of six thousand years of human settlement, from Neolithic to Medieval times.

Lough Gur is also an important ecological area, botanically rich and a sanctuary for migratory birds.

Here is a bit of legend:

'The old folk had heard that night called All-Heal. They knew that if a sick person was not better by the eighth or ninth day of the moon he would hear Coolsidhe, The fairy music with which Aine the Banshee, spirit of Lough Gur, comforts the dying.

He would fall asleep to Suantraighe, the whispering song of sleep which Fer Fi plays on a three-stringed harp'.

This is a picture of Halloween at Kells in St Columcille's Oratory, a wonderful stone building dating back to the 11th C...
05/11/2011

This is a picture of Halloween at Kells in St Columcille's Oratory, a wonderful stone building dating back to the 11th Century. The 'monk' is writing the Book of Kells. Kells is trying to get the Book of Kells back from Trinity College, Dublin, where it is now on view to the public.

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