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Digging through the archive I found these two aerial photos of Blarney from September 2016, and the first one stopped me. See those fields that border the houses on 3 sides? They’re now Cluain Ard with houses, gardens, driveways, the lot. Back then it was still being farmed, with the older estates hugging the edges.

The second frame is some of the village laid out like a model: the secondary school and its car park bottom left, the filling station tucked in the middle, the Woollen Mills sprawling off to the right, and up top, and it’s almost startlingly green, is the Castle, the grounds and Blarney Lough. You spend years walking around a place at ground level and forget how compact it all is from above. Worth pulling these out before another decade rolls over and another field changes shape.

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