Wild Country

Making our way around Knockree Hill, County Wicklow,  we observe this beautiful and wild stretch of Glencree Valley.

40 Shades Of Green

Travelling round Knockree Hill heading for Enniskerry, County Wicklow, we see the woods of the beautiful Glencree Valley and their myriad varieties of trees in various stages of bloom.

Peace In Glencree

On our recent New Year's tour around the Sally Gap and Glencree we stopped off at the Glencree Centre for Peace and Reconciliation overlooking the beautiful and spectacular Glencree Valley. 

On the site of Glencree Barracks, built in 1806 to keep the Military Road through the mountains free from rebels, and later, in the 1850's, it was reopened as St Kevin's Reformatory for young boys, Glencree, today,  is a non-profit, non-governmental organisation that is devoted to peacebuilding and reconciliation in Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, Great Britain, and beyond.

Founded in 1974 as a response to the conflict in Ireland and to further non-violent solutions to encourage reconciliation within and between communities, Glencree works towards understanding complex relationships, as well as cultivating new ones, between all people from all parts of society.

A Road To Nowhere

This is the Old Military Road a couple of miles south of Glencree, Co Wicklow taking us to  the Sally Gap and sometimes disappearing in the dark clouds which often overhang this wild mountain region.  We're traversing a bleak and desolate land through never ending peaty bogland with the Lower and Upper Loughs Bray and the lofty cliffs terminating the ridge of Mount Kippure on our right.  It always seems to me that here, we're on a road to nowhere.