Some scenery photos from Northern Ireland

samn40 · Dec 9, 2013

I was in a different part of our county today and had the camera in the jeep, so I took some pics that might interest some of you folk...This is just a scene of the farmland looking over the top of a sandpit

All you flatlanders look away now!

You see how narrow and twisty our side roads are....these roads date back centuries and have only been basically upgraded to just about accept modern traffic!

One of the many old bridges over the Newry canal. Although this canal is non working it still holds the honour of being the oldest canal in the British Isles. At this point the canal flows to the South , where I live it flows North....

Some winter wheat, looking good and well established. You will note the tramlines we use for spraying purposes. Much more suitable than GPS for our conditions. Our drills are set up to block off some spouts automatically to make these tramlines. It has the added benefit in spring sown barley where without tramlines the wheelmarks are later to ripen, with the tramlines you have no unripe crop in the wheel marks.

This is a B class road...still twisty! This is our main route to the Irish Border.

Sam

dgasper · Dec 9, 2013

Beautiful!

Anonymous-0 · Dec 9, 2013

Thanks for the pics Samn.I always enjoy seeing the scenery you post.I hate to display my ignorance in public but I don't quite understand about the tramlines.

valleview · Dec 9, 2013

Love the photographs- looks like peaceful countryside. Thanks

jm. · Dec 9, 2013

Sam you would have no way of knowing but we have a TV program here called Doc Martin. It is set there in your country . Looks just like your photos. Like the photos, keep posting. jm in Tennessee

rrlund · Dec 9, 2013

The wife and I and some friends went to "An Irish Christmas in America,the Show" this past Friday night. Throughout the show,they showed winter scenes of Ireland in the background as a slide show. Beautiful to say the least. Good to see it still green too!

1968 403 · Dec 9, 2013

Beautiful countryside. Please post more pics.

samn40 · Dec 9, 2013

If you look at the wheat field you will see like wheeltracks up the field....these are not wheel tracks but rows that the drill did not sow, with spacings to suit the wheel width of the tractor and we can set our drills to place these tramlines to suit the width of the spray boom on our sprayers.....helps keep us parallel and with no overspray!
Sam

samn40 · Dec 9, 2013

Doc Martin is set in Cornwall, in the very far south of England, but,yes it is very similar to Norn Iron .
Sam

samn40 · Dec 9, 2013

I have posted more pics downstairs on the tales section....Enter at your own risk!
Sam

David G · Dec 9, 2013

I have been to Leixlip, outside Dublin, a couple of times. I never did
get used to driving on the WRONG side. It is beautiful country.

Wheat Farmer · Dec 9, 2013

One of my Bucket list. Come for a visit. Keep those photos coming to fill my bucket. HA HA.

lee little · Dec 9, 2013

Thanks! Now I understand.

Prawn Farmer · Dec 9, 2013

Your pictures are much appreciated. The rural roads seem to be very well maintained.

Tony in Mass. · Dec 9, 2013

Meeting a double-decker on a c road with hedges...umph. I guess these are what cost the US and Canadain troops so many loses at Normandy... they thought... oh, a flimsy row of bushes... not quite eh? 1000 years of traffic in the same spot made a sunken road into a rock harder than the pavement.. and 1000 years of rootball and risen soil, millions of rocks into hidden stonewalls? non deposit beer and wine bottles?...plough points and rolling coulters? under that innocent row of bushes.. needed more 'arbourist' on the pre-invasion intelligence team didn't they? Are you done trimming these for the season yet?

Duner Wi · Dec 9, 2013

Thank you for the photos. Always enjoy looking!

hd6gtom · Dec 9, 2013

If it is not too much trouble, and you can find the time, please post more pictures of your beautiful homeland. Thank You

Bill(Wis) · Dec 9, 2013

But, with a little bit of American Ingenuity, a Chief Warrant Officer from New Jersey and "Rommel's asparagus" mated to the front of M4 Sherman tanks, the hedgerows gave way, didn't they?

ShadetreeRet · Dec 9, 2013

Sam, that is some beautiful country! I always enjoy your photographs. I remember when I was in high school, our Vocational/Agriculture instructor telling us about the hedgerows in Ireland and the UK, and how some of the briars had been brought to the States and how it was a PITA to kill them out.
The roads aren't too different from some of those in the area where I live. We have some that are quite twisty and narrow out through the countryside.
One of my daughters spent a week in Ireland a few years ago, the company she was with owned a plastics molding facility there, but I can't remember which town. She enjoyed her stay, found it to be an interesting place.

Anonymous-0 · Dec 10, 2013

Thanks for the pictures! Visited N IRE 2 years ago
to see the area of my ancestry
(Castledawson/Bellaghy). It is such a beautiful
country with manicured preserved farmland. Wish
those of us in the US had the foresight and power
to emulate your preservationist yet productive
perspective. We've been here in the US for only ~
200 years - a fraction of your time in N IRE, and
we as a society don't seem to treasure our
agricultural base. Progress is development with
houses & shopping malls. Mike

AzPeapicker · Dec 10, 2013

Good Morning Sam

Really enjoyed your pictures of Ireland . I am always amazed at the Beauty of your Country .
Keep the pictures coming

John in AZ.

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