The Hazel Tree

by Jo Woolf

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  • Looking again at lichen

    September 3, 2013 /

    Some of my favourite photos, all taken in one place: Eileach an Naoimh, in the Garvellachs.

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    Alexander II and the ‘ghosts’ of his galleys

    August 18, 2020

    Woodcock pin-feather paintings – with gold leaf

    December 28, 2015

    Tales of the riverbank

    January 15, 2014
  • 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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    The secrets of St Cormac

    November 5, 2018

    Kilmartin church and graveyard

    July 24, 2018

    The old chapel of Kilvaree

    June 24, 2018
  • 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 Bride’s: a history worth saving

    June 20, 2018

    Dunkeld Cathedral: Scotland’s sacred heart

    January 10, 2014

    Iona: Dun I and the Well of Eternal Youth

    May 1, 2023

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