Ailwee Fields

On Christmas Eve 2005 Sadie, Fionn and I hiked up along the side of Moneen Mountain to the old fluorospar workings on the saddle between Moneen and Ailwee. The little valley of Gleann na Manach below us was like a study in pastoral tranquility from the brush of an old master, hazy and lit with late winter light. A photograph doesn't do it any justice whatsoever.

Ralph Doyle