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Holdfast - Explored 20161010

            The castle is built on a rocky outcrop, with a ditch cut by hand into the rock. Immediately north of here were the hills of bandit country, held by the native Irish. Hence the massive size of the castle

These days it's not like that at all. The current UK border (and south Armagh) is now less than a kilometer to the north.

There's a story regarding the construction of this castle. Lady Rohesia de Verdun (from whom we get the surname Roche) was the holder of the land in this area. After her husband died, she decided to move back here and build a castle.

Apparently she was considered to be not a great person to work with, since no architect would build the castle for her. Try as she might, she couldn't get a guy to lay the thing out for her.

"Fine", she says. "I'll marry whoever agrees to build this castle for me". This got her a taker all right, for who wouldn't want to have an equal stake in lands in lovely north Louth?

Anyway, the castle got built. On the night before her wedding to the architect, the lady Rohesia invites her husband-to-be to take a look out the window, so that he can survey the lands that would be his tomorrow. It was a fine big window.

Reader, she pushed him out of it.

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Taken in: Ireland / Louth (show map)

Taken on: August 27, 2016

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Camera: Pentax K-30, f/11.0, 1/250 sec, 12mm (=18mm), ISO 200 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Pentax K-30
Aperture:	f/11.0
Exposure Time:	0.004 sec (1/250)
Focal Length:	12mm (35mm equivalent: 18mm)
ISO:	200
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Aperture-priority AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto bracket
Metering Mode:	Center-weighted average
White Balance:	Auto
Sharpness:	Hard
Color Space:	Uncalibrated
Software:	Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.3 (Windows)
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