Page 48 - Trip to Ireland Final Flip Book

We drive and drive and drive without much sun. The

landscape becomes a barren, desolate moonscape with

occasional houses and animals.

We pass field after field were peat is

drying. We could see trenches where

it came out of the ground. They must

use a special shovel to dig it. I’m sure

they also use machines. The peat in
some places is coal black and almost

brown in other spots. You can see it
in these photos.

…Digging.

…the squelch and slap
Of soggy peat,

the curt cuts of an edge…

Digging
By Seamus Heaney

(1939 – 2013)

We finally reach the coast and see some cliffs in the distance. A

check of the map shows that Horn Head is not too far away so

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