The Hazel Tree

by Jo Woolf

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Latest blog posts on The Hazel Tree

  • Deirdre and the Sons of Uisneach
  • Torinturk and the fort of the black dog
  • Before the rain
  • St Brendan’s Seat
  • Blackthorn: the darkest wood

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
  • History

    St Brendan’s Seat

    March 20, 2022 /

    A bit out of the way, perhaps... but what a view!

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    The Butter Bridge, Glen Kinglas

    March 21, 2015

    Fountains Abbey: from simplicity to splendour

    March 10, 2013

    The stone circles of Fortingall

    May 11, 2014
  • Carved crosses,  History

    Treasures in a Knapdale wood

    May 29, 2021 /

    Looking for a cross, a well and an old burial ground by the shore of Loch Sween

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    The mystery of the Kilchoan Cross

    February 27, 2013

    Kildalton Cross: guardian of another time

    March 11, 2012

    The Lerags Cross

    July 2, 2017
  • Churches, abbeys and chapels,  History

    St Moluag’s Cathedral on the Isle of Lismore

    March 1, 2016 /

    When it came to choosing an island for his monastery, the 'Apostle of the Picts' wasn't going to let Lismore slip through his hands...

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    Keills Chapel: shadows of time

    April 5, 2015

    Rosslyn Chapel: catching the light

    March 9, 2016

    Sweetheart Abbey

    June 14, 2012
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    "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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