Grotto Slate Quarry - Valentia Island - County Kerry - Ireland
Grotte de la carrière d'ardoise - Île de Valentia - Comté de Kerry - Irlande
Coordonnées GPS: 51°55'30.9N 10°20'33.6W
Il s'agit en fait d'une carrière où l'on extrait l'ardoise. Elle a ouvert ses portes en 1816, mais une roche s'est détachée et a provoqué la fermeture de celle-ci en 1910.
Elle a été abandonnée jusqu'en 1954, année où les statues de Bernadette et de Notre-Dame ont été placées au-dessus de l'entrée de la carrière, et plusieurs événements y ont été présentés.
La carrière a été ré-ouverte il y a quelques années. Célèbre pour la qualité de son ardoise, on la retrouve entre autres à l'Opéra de Paris, dans les chambres du parlement de Londres et elle a servi également pour la construction de nombreuses tables de billard, dont une destinée à la Reine Victoria et au duc de Wellington.
Aujourd'hui, l'ardoise est également utilisée pour la confection de tables, comptoirs et revêtements de toiture.
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Valentia Island Ireland Slate Quarry
EP.13 Irish Photo Rally 2019 - Valentia Slate Quarry
Here it is lads, the finale!
#19 Valentia Slate Quarry
To finish the Irish Photo Rally Series I met up with a fellow Irish Motovlogger KazaWhaki as Valentia Island was his last point also.
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We had some craic talking through the headsets and exploring Valentia Island. I will go back some time in 2020 to get better drone footage than what I got as I was under some time pressure on the day & the weather wasn't playing ball.
Anyway, I hope you enjoy the last point in the Irish Photo Rally 2019.
I do plan on making a recap video on the whole thing to talk about my opinion/experiences so stay tuned for that!
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Valentia Slate Promo DVD
Promotional Video for Valentia Slate Ltd, Valentia Island, Co. Kerry.
Exploring VALENTIA | Irish Road Trip | Ep. 1
Went on an EPIC Road Trip to the West of Ireland with some friends. Here's what we got up to...
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Geokaun Mountain - Valentia Island - County Kerry - Ireland
Montagne de Geokaun - Île de Valentia - Comté de Kerry - Irlande
Coordonnées GPS: 51°54'55.5N 10°20'59.5W
Sur ce site, vous avez la possibilité de marcher ou de conduire jusqu'au sommet. A cet effet, il y a trois espaces de stationnement à différents niveaux, rendant ainsi possible l'accès aux différents points de vue à tout le monde.
Au premier niveau, un court sentier vous amène à une terrasse d'observation vous permettant ainsi d'admirer les falaises de Fogher.
Plusieurs panneaux informatifs ont été installés afin de nous renseigner sur l'histoire, la mythologie, la géographie et la faune de cette région.
Au second niveau, un sentier en boucle d'une longueur de 1,6 km a également été aménagé et celui-ci fait le tour de la montagne. Déjà à cette hauteur, le panorama est vraiment époustouflant.
Le troisième et dernier niveau se trouve au sommet de la montagne qui culmine à 266 mètres d'altitude. La vue au sommet est réellement spectaculaire et nous permet d'admirer non seulement le phare et les falaises de l'Île de Valentia, mais également la Péninsule de Dingle, la Carrauntoohil Mountain ainsi que les Skellig Islands.
Il est possible d'apporter son lunch et de le manger directement sur place puisque plusieurs tables de pique-nique ont été installées à différents endroits sur le site.
Veuillez prendre note qu'il y a un droit d'entrée de 5 € par voiture ou de 2 € par piéton/cycliste.
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Sean Nos dancing - Valentia Slate Quarry
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Reclaimed Natural Slate from Killoran - Ireland
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IRLAND BEST OF VALENTIA ISLAND Ring of Skellig
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Back to the seventies with the Old Delabole Slate Quarry
Workers at Delabole Slate Quarry in the 1970s.
Valentia: An Island Apart
Photographer Padraig Kennelly discusses how the island of Valentia, County Kerry, has remained something of a contradiction over the years. While geographically, the island was cut off from the mainland, it was also the link for many to the rest of the world, as it was the location of the Western Union Cable Station.
Tetrapod Trackway - Valentia Island - County Kerry - Ireland
Traces de pas d'un tétrapode - Île de Valentia - Comté de Kerry - Irlande
Coordonnées GPS: 51°55'45.7N 10°20'45.4W
Les tétrapodes sont des animaux vertébrés qui comprennent les reptiles, les amphibiens, les oiseaux ainsi que les mammifères. Plusieurs de ces espèces ont subi des transformations physiques dans le temps leur permettant ainsi de mieux s'adapter à leur environnement changeant.
Sur l'Île de Valentia, on a découvert des traces de pas d'un tétrapode qui dateraient de près de 385 millions d'année. Il s'agit d'une découverte importante puisque ces traces de pas représentent la transition de la vie aquatique vers la vie terrestre de ces animaux.
A cette époque, ceux-ci vivaient dans l'eau. Cependant, leur environnement a changé et il n'y avait presque plus d'oxygène disponible dans l'eau.
Leur corps s'est donc adapté puisque leurs nageoires se sont transformées en pattes et ils ont développé la capacité de respirer l'air hors de l'eau.
Leur apparence avait celle d'un grand lézard d'une longueur approximative d'un mètre.
Les fossiles que l'on peut observer à cet endroit se sont formés dû au fait que le tétrapode a marché sur de la terre humide alors qu'une autre couche de sédiment a enterré les empreintes avant que l'eau ne les efface. Avec le temps, ces empreintes ont séché et ont été compactées dans les roches.
Nous pouvons également observer des marques d'ondulation fossilisées crées par l'érosion côtière datant également de cette époque fort lointaine.
Par ailleurs, à 2 km de ce site se trouve le phare de Cromwell Point (coordonnées GPS 51°55'55.2N 10°19'22.1W). Ce dernier sert à guider les navires et les conduire à l'entrée nord du port de Valentia.
Jadis, il abritait un fort qui aurait été construit. au XVIe siècle.
La première lumière a été mise en opération en février 1841. A l'origine, le gardien du phare habitait sur le site avec sa famille.
De nos jours, c'est plutôt un préposé à temps partiel qui s'occupe de la station. Il faut dire que la lumière a été automatisée en novembre 1947.
Pour visiter le phare, des frais de 5 € par personne sont exigés.
Nous n'avons pas effectué cette visite. Cependant, vous pouvez avoir avoir un aperçu du phare dans cette vidéo ainsi que dans les vidéos suivantes: et
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Ring of Kerry, Ireland 2 - Valentia island
Ring of Kerry, Ireland 2003 - Valetnia island, Telegraph field (Transatlantic telegraph cable memorial), Slate Quarry cave
Another video Ring of Kerry, part 1
The Ring of Kerry (Irish: Mórchuaird Chiarraí) is a 179-km-long circular tourist route in County Kerry, south-western Ireland. Clockwise from Killarney it follows the N71 to Kenmare, then the N70 around the Iveragh Peninsula to Killorglin – passing through Sneem, Waterville, Cahersiveen, and Glenbeigh – before returning to Killarney via the N72.
Valentia Island (Irish: Dairbhre) is one of Ireland's most westerly points lying off the Iveragh Peninsula in the south-west of County Kerry. It is linked to the mainland by the Maurice O'Neill Memorial Bridge at Portmagee.
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Valentia Island - The Experience - Chapter 2
Our journey through the Ring of Kerry continues and In this chapter, we visited Valentia island! an amazing little place with some stunning views.
The Wild Atlantic Way is just full of amazing landscapes.
We stayed overnight in Spring Acre Bed & Breakfast located in Knight's Town, a very chill place. It's suited for families and adults looking for a nice and quiet place to rest.
The owners are an elderly couple and they made a mean Irish breakfast that kept us going the whole day! definitively check them out :
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Valentia Island, Ireland
Valentia Island is one of Ireland’s most westerly points! The population of the island is around 600 people! It is approximately 11 kilometres long and 3km wide! This is a must place to visit! The views are amazing!!
ST PATRICK'S PURGATORY LOUGH DERG CO. DONEGAL REPUBLIC OF IRELAND
ST PATRICK'S PURGATORY LOUGH DERG CO. DONEGAL REPUBLIC OF IRELAND . thought to be the most visited devotional site in Ireland the ancient pilgrimage site at Lough Derg occupies a powerful place in the Irish imagination. Even if they have not gone there themselves, most Irish adults know of some friend or family member who has experienced the rigorous three-day retreat there, or at least know it by reputation. It even has a place in Irish literature.
The name Lough Derg refers to a lake that surrounds two large islands in northwest Ireland, not far from the border between the Republic and Northern Ireland. The islands, Saints’ Island and Station Island, have been sites of pilgrimage since at least the early 12th century, and the home of Irish monks for six centuries before that. There, in a form not much changed in centuries, pilgrims still travel to “Saint Patrick’s Purgatory” on Station Island for a physically grueling routine of prayer, fasting and sleep deprivation that many describe as leaving them feeling “stripped away” or “broken
As legend has it, St. Patrick found a cave here that was the entrance to purgatory, a place that helped wavering believers see heaven and hell. The larger of the two Islands, Saints’ Island, was home to a monastery led by St. Davog (d. 516), one of the “apostles” of Ireland. The smaller island, Station Island, home of today’s pilgrimage, was the site of the cave, the “purgatory,” and a number of small beehive-shaped stone monks’ cells that are a locus of pilgrimage today. Augustinian monks took over in the early 12th century and promoted the cave as a site for pilgrimage. According to medieval accounts, pilgrims traveled to the cave from throughout Europe, and after 15 days’ prayer were locked in the cave for a 24-hour penitential vigil. The site was closed briefly during the Renaissance papacy, destroyed later by Protestant reformers, and severely suppressed during the penal times in the 17th and 18th centuries, but the pilgrimages seemed to take place almost continuously.2 After the penal times, a “prison church” which replicated the experience of being locked in the cave was built on the site of the cave. The number of pilgrims fluctuated significantly over the years, growing to 30,000 per year at its 20th-century peak.3 As late as 1979, the shrine was operating at full capacity, welcoming 500 pilgrims each day for retreats during the season.
Though Lough Derg offers a variety of one-day options and several themed retreats, the experience most people know of is the three-day pilgrimage, a period of fasting, rote prayers and abstinence from sleep. Three-day retreats take place beginning any day from June 1–August 15,
The “three-day” retreat actually entails only 36-40 hours on the island, with pilgrims arriving by 3:30 p.m. on the day they choose to begin, and leaving the island by 9:30 a.m. a day and a half later. In one important sense, though, the retreat begins earlier and ends later. Pilgrims are expected to begin a complete fast at midnight before they arrive, and can only break the fast the midnight after their departure. During their time on Lough Derg, they may not bring food, drinks or candy, mobile phones or computers, cameras or musical instruments.4 They eat only one “Lough Derg meal” per day — black tea and dry toast or plain oatcakes — and can otherwise drink only water. They do not sleep from the time of their arrival on the island until 10 p.m. on the second day of their retreat, a period of at least 31 hours.
During the course of their stay, pilgrims complete nine “stations,” periods when they walk in circles silently along pre-defined paths in or around the church; in circles around the “penitential beds,” the foundations of circular monastic stone cells said to date from the 9th century; and at stone “kneelers” at the edge of the lake. During each station they repeatedly pray the Hail Mary, Our Father, and Apostles’ Creed, standing, kneeling, walking as they progress. They walk barefoot on stone or pavement for the whole of the pilgrimage,
The first day includes three stations between the arrival on the island and the first evening’s night prayer and Benediction. A 24-hour vigil that starts after the Benediction includes a nighttime Rosary, then four stations during the night, then a 6:30 a.m. Mass, confessions at 8:30, another station, a noontime renewal of baptismal promises, a Way of the Cross at 3 p.m., evening Mass at 6:30, and a night prayer, Benediction and conclusion to the vigil at 10 p.m., when pilgrims go to their dormitories to sleep.
Ancient pre-dinosaur footprints on Valentia Island, Co.Kerry
Among the most ancient preserved footprints in the world are to be found on Valentia Island - just outside Knightstown.
Although they don't boast the massive slab-like impressions of a giant (a creature about the size of a cat made them), they are ancient.
Those footprints are from your last fish-like ancestor - a tetrapod. It went on to develop into you and me, & pretty much every other land-based animal.
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