Bunratty Castle, Co Clare. June 2013.

Are you looking at me? Bunratty Castle, Co Clare, June 2013.

Somewhere in Co Clare, July 2011.

It’s odd sometimes when you’re traveling through the towns of Ireland and you come across the remnants of the Celtic Tiger, usually newly built and empty office buildings. This is one such building, near the waterfront in the town of Kilrush in County Clare. It faces on to a broad street but all the other…

Rain falls on a river in a town in County Clare while we were stuck in a traffic jam. I used to know what town this was taken in but now it’s a mystery. It did have a very distinctive walled off area right in the middle of the river though. Anyone recognise it?

Just beyond the pier at Kilkee Beach lie these rocks and pools of sea water.

A sand crab, moments before it was destroyed by the gleeful swipe of a 2 year old’s foot.

A castle in the hills to the South of Doolin in County Clare.

The Arann Islands, as seen from O’Briens Tower on the Cliffs of Moher.

One of the boats at Kilkee Beach, County Clare.

One of the rooms in Bunratty Castle, County Clare. It’s a long exposure shot, what you don’t see here are all the visitors milling about!

O’Brien’s Tower overlooks the Cliffs of Moher in County Clare. The tower was built in 1835 according to the Wikipedia page on the building. The tower was built on the Cliffs of Moher in 1835 by local landlord Sir Cornellius O’Brien as an observation tower for the hundreds of Victorian tourists that frequented the cliffs…