Stopping By Hedgerows

We depend on the ground beneath our feet more than we realise, and it has moved more than we can imagine.

Acknowledgments

• Music by Camron Roo
• Livingstone, S.J., Cofaigh, C.O. and Evans, D.J.A. (2008) Glacial geomorphology of the central sector of the last British-Irish Ice Sheet. Journal of Maps, 4 (1). 358 - 377. ISSN: 1744-5647
• Geology of South Mayo Bedrock Map Series Sheet 11

As the wheel turns toward St. Brigid’s Day and the ancient festival of Imbolc, I mark the traditional arrival of spring with a visit to a local holy well. Join me as we explore the intersection of landscape, ritual, and history. A special note of thanks to Jim O'Connor for his knowledge and poetry reading.

Acknowledgements

• Poetry remains the copyright of Jim O’Connor 
• Cameron Roo - music
• John O’Donovan’s 1838 Ordnance Survey Letters of County Mayo, edited by Rev. Michael O’Flanagan (1927) Vol 2 page 456.

• Celeste Ray, Sewanee, The University of the South https://new.sewanee.edu/our-faculty-staff/celeste-ray/ 

• Constance Jones; James D. Ryan (2006). Encyclopedia of Hinduism. Infobase Publishing. p. 472.

• https://sound-effects.bbcrewind.co.uk/

• Voices from festival in Mali celebrating goddess Nyale

• Tribal deer dance North America 

• Church bells - Ammassalik, Greenland

During a trip to the hazel forest I got lost, little did I know I was not the first.

No affiliation with Netflix or the show!

Acknowledgments

• Cameron Roo - Music

• Sean Lysaght

• Phil Barnett

• https://www.logainm.ie/en/

• https://irishpagan.school/irish-for-fairy/

• https://www.irishagroforestry.ie/silvopasture-cattle

As the year turns, let's turn our ears beyond the patch to listen to something different. A special episode to explore a year in Vermont with Micki Colbeck.

In the summer, I walked down to my favourite place in the world to listen and to observe. Being not doing.

Exploring the history of our hedgerows and what they say to us.

Acknowledgements

• https://www.mayo.ie/heritage/mayo-hedgerow/
• https://www.mayo.ie/getmedia/3c367b71-7008-46d9-a62a-c055fd2beb68/County-Mayo-Hedgerow-Survey-Report_Final.pdf

In 2018, the buzzard's shadow once again fell upon our corner of the west of Ireland. These are my reflections on their homecoming.

Acknowledgements

• BirdWatch Ireland, Buzzard Species Focus (2011)

• https://birdfact.com/articles/buzzard-nesting

• Colm Philpott https://xeno-canto.org/979487 

• Oscar Campbell https://xeno-canto.org/582314 

• Harry Hussey https://xeno-canto.org/578537 

Abandoned cottages speckle the Mayo countryside. Combining the hard evidence of census records, maps and onsite investigations with imagined, fact-based dialogue, I attempt to bring one home, and the people who lived there, back to life, if only for a few moments.

Acknowledgements

• https://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/

• https://www.irishgenealogy.ie/view

• Patrick Kavanagh’s wonderful poem, If ever you go to Dublin Town

In search of the well of the eels that gives Pollanaskan townland its name.

Acknowledgements

• The GeoHive map view is a great resource from the government agency, Tailte Eireann and can be accessed at geohive.ie
• Maps of drainage systems, such as the Moy, can be found on the Environmental Protection Agency's Geoportal at gis.epa.ie
• For exploration of place names, begin at loganim.ie
  

A walk in the rain to date a local hedgerow using Hooper's Law.

Acknowledgments

Teagasc - https://teagasc.ie/crops/forestry/advice/forest-protection/ash-dieback/