The Hazel Tree

by Jo Woolf

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Latest blog posts on The Hazel Tree

  • Torinturk and the fort of the black dog
  • Before the rain
  • St Brendan’s Seat
  • Blackthorn: the darkest wood
  • Fincharn Castle on Loch Awe

Latest blog posts for RSGS

Alexander Kellas - 'the most modest man that ever travelled the Himalayas'
Jane Digby el-Mezrab: from ballroom conquests to bedouin camps
Sir Everard im Thurn and an expedition to 'The Lost World'
Straight up the Prow: Roraima by the hardest route
  • Churches, abbeys and chapels,  History

    The Garvellachs: just below the surface

    September 1, 2013 /

    Set into a grassy bank on Eileach an Naoimh, the 'Isle of the Saints', is this small but intriguing underground chamber. Just what was it used for?

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    Jedburgh Abbey

    October 1, 2015

    St Moluag’s Cathedral on the Isle of Lismore

    March 1, 2016

    St Bride’s: a history worth saving

    June 20, 2018
  • Churches, abbeys and chapels,  History

    St Brendan and the Garvellachs

    February 24, 2012 /

    St Brendan and the Garvellachs sounds like an Irish folk group… and in a way, that's what they were! In the 6th century St Brendan and a band of adventurers set sail in search of paradise.

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    St Margaret’s Chapel in Edinburgh Castle

    January 19, 2012

    Dunkeld Cathedral: Scotland’s sacred heart

    January 10, 2014

    Kilbride Kirk, Lerags

    July 4, 2017

"To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature."

Thomas Hardy, 'Under the Greenwood Tree'
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