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The winter rains have shown up the spots where the track isn't up to snuff for driving. We had a few visitors stuck at the bottom in quite deep mud, luckily they all got out, although there is the possibility that some of cars sank in so deeply...
We were both getting frustrated at not getting up to work on the land enough during all the mild weather these last two months. We have done so much work behind the scenes: making plans, contacts and setting up courses etc. The phrase letting...
Last month two friends and I distributed 60 tons of hardcore onto the dirt track. That's 20 tons each! Not having done this before, 60 tons sounded like an awful lot. But when you look at it, it just looks like a big mound, not very...
So we hope to plant more that a hundred native trees in the bare root season not to mention at least 50 apple trees in December, but there are deer in the Coilte woods abutting our land. We are told, lots. We have heard the non fence arguement,...
We are both struck by the twin pulls of leaving the land untouched and starting to actively change the site.
Today I drove up the new track a bit rough and muddy yet, and then we walked up to the area cleared for a traditional wooden barn...
Today, after lots of delays, the track machine (very big digger)
finally arrived. I found it challenging to reconcile my image of
Carraig Dulra as an oasis, with the need to establish better access for
(unsustainable) vehicles...
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