Ireland
Subtitle: Stone Walls & Fabled Landscapes
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Frances Lincoln
Published: October 29, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9780711213722
Subjects: British & Irish history; Folklore; Subjects & Themes - Travel - World/Great Britain; History - General History; Travel; Stone walls; History: World; Ireland; Europe - Ireland; Travel / General; General; Antiquities; Historical geography; History; Landscape
First sentence: The walls look as though they have been there forever: mottled with lichen and bearded with moss; woven together with vines, hedges and trees; running, in more than one place, straight across a shallow stream bed, as if the wall were there before the water; emerging, in other places, from the low tide mark, as if the walls splashed ashore with the first settlers in Ireland, 8,000 years ago.