Inis Mor (Aran Islands)
Sundial on Inis Mor
This is a an ancient sundial. To use it, one puts a stick through the hole at the top of the stone, and the shadow cast upon the circle below would give a measurement. There is, of course, just one little problem, as this picture demonstrates. What do you do when the sun doesn't shine ?
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This picture isn't infrared - just monochrome. Even the original colour version was almost entirely composed of shades of grey, and the large rocks - worn smooth from the action of the sea - had a rather beguiling mottled pattern caused by the damp drying irregularly on the rock surface.
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This is a picture of me, standing beside a limestone boulder that has become dislodged from the cliff-face on Inis Mor (the largest of the Aran Islands).
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The cliffs on Inis Mor are being eroded by the sea, so that the limestone cliffs overhang the lower levels by many metres (before they come crashing down)
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Clifftop Selfie
It might not be obvious from the size of the image, but the man right on the cliff edge is taking a 'selfie' with his camera phone (I wonder if I'm in the background). The wall behind him is part of the fortifications at Dun Aengus (Dún Aonghasa)
