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Castlemorris Woods Co Kilkenny,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]
There have been green men in the Grand Gates of Castlemorris. I saw them leering out of the fancy, cast-iron foliage with pop eyes and saucy beards. Or possibly it was just my imagination,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], already working overtime to picture what things must have been like 100 years ago,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], when Castlemorris House -- with its reputed 365 windows and its armies of servants -- was ready to go under the de Montmorency family.
The great house is long gone,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], unroofed and demolished; the Montmorencys are noticed no more within their mid-Kilkenny parkland. However the grounds -- more thickly wooded now than they ever were when the Castlemorris gardeners kept all spick and span -- are now in Coillte's stewardship and open to all.
Three locals had mustered to join Jane and that i for a night stroll through soft rain showers: friends and fellow walkers Mary Cuddihy and Lily Burke, with their chum Eoin Hogan,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Co Kilkenny's young and enthusiastic walks officer. This was a pretty formidable deployment of conversation power. Bacon,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], shoes,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the dawn chorus, poetry,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], traditional songs,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Donegal hills and modern mores counseled me dusted off and shaken out. Lily spoke of the solitary ancient who still inhabits these woods, and spoke of thrilling her kids with tales from the Three Bears resident in the Gate Lodge.
If you like wild flowers and trees, arrived at Castlemorris. Here,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], you will find oak, ash, beech, hazel, sycamore, specimen conifers and silver-skinned hornbeams. In their shelter flourished big spreads of buttercups,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], tall sow thistles,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], purple vetches, bird's-foot trefoil and hairy-podded herb robert. Bramble bushes wore white and pink shawls of guelder roses. Wrens chittered and blackbirds fluted -- it had been that time of day.
We walked the grass and gravel paths of Castlemorris,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], stopping to look with the ivy-hung archway of the old stableyard into the dark tangle of trees in which the Huge home once stood. About the far side of the woods, we came to the traditional church of Aghaviller and climbed its perilous stone stair for any jackdaw's-eye view of the Round Tower and also the railed burial vault of the Montmorencys in the shadow. How strange it had been to determine the great tomb slabs using their grim iron rings, sealing off the Big House family in death as in life.
Such a gulf came poignantly in your thoughts across the calm pathways of G an Ghorta, a garden just in the future from Castlemorris that's been organized to represent a brief history from the Great Famine.
Wandering there later that evening, one pictured the past as truly another country. Yet echoes of it ripple on, most famously within the difficulties a lot of walkers have experienced down the years in getting access to their own native countryside.
Several factors happen to be at play: a lack of information; inadequate mapping; old anxieties of landowners and farmers; and nod-and-a-wink permissions that never went to legal status and could be withdrawn on impulse. Now things are changing,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], praise god.
Nearing the Grand Gates at the end from the Castlemorris walk, I ran wet beech and oak leaves through my fingers and gave a silent salute to Coillte. The opening of so many forest and woodland paths to walkers continues to be probably the most important factors in getting people out into the outside.
Woods weave powerful magic, seducing you to their green shade and delectable silences -- should you discount bird song,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], insect hum, wind music and the gentle, million-fold drip of damp exhalations from fern and leaf.
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