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Winter — a flooded path in Carton House near #Maynooth.

A square low and wide black and white shot of raindrops falling in a puddle with a soft-focus park landscape behind and a cloudy sky above.

The daffodils are coming soon!

The first buds are appearing under the trees on the grounds of St. Patrick’s College #Maynooth. #Bloomscrolling

A low wide close view of a clump of tall wide dark green grass-like leaves with a single flower stem rising a little higher topped with a still green flower bud. All are growing between fallen brown leaves on a a woodland floor. Large still bare trees are visible in soft focus behind.

A perfect January afternoon along the #RoyalCanal near #Maynooth. You rarely see the canal this smooth!

A wide landscape view looking down the gravel towpath of a rural canal with a blue sky and scattered white clouds above. A handful of big bare trees break the horizon, and the canal is so smooth it reflects the sky perfectly. The canal and path gently curve through the scene from the foreground to the right, vanishing in the mid-distance.

Approaching #Maynooth along a mirror-smooth #RoyalCanal during a break in the recent waves of winter rain. I love that with the trees bare the college spire is visible between the trees.

A portrait-oriented telephoto landscape shot looking down a left-curve in a tree-lined canal. A church spire is visible between the bare tree branches in the middle of the frame. A blue sky with cottonwool clouds is visible overhead and almost perfectly reflected in the still water of the canal. The canal banks are a light brown colour due to the reeds dying back in winter.

Through Pike Bridge — a view down the #RoyalCanal towards #Maynooth on a perfectly calm winter day as an #IrishRail InterCity #train starts into the last leg of it’s cross-country trek from Sligo to Dublin.

A black and white square view down a rural canal framed all around by the underside of a round bridge arch and its reflection. A cloudy sky is reflected in the canal as well as the bridge arch, a gravel path runs along the left bank, and a railcar-type train can be seen approaching along the left bank in the mid-distance.

A golden hint of spring in suburbia as the first of the yellow crocuses peep their heads up in St.Mary’s park in #Maynooth. #Bloomscrolling

A low wide macro view of tall thin golden yellow flower buds poking through the bare soil under a tree along with some thin spikes of dark green leaves. The edge of the shot is framed by the edge of a tree trunk, and the soft-focus background shows hits of a grassy area with houses behind, and some soft focus bare tree branches frame the top of the scene.

After days and days of relentless wind and rain, the #RoyalCanal was so peaceful this morning in #Maynooth.

A portrait-oriented wide-screen landscape shot looking down a straight stretch of mirror-still canal from an elevated point of view. A mostly overcast light-grey sky with a few patches of blue is reflected in the full length of the canal. A paved towpath runs down the left side of the canal and a railway line down the right. Both sides of the scene are lined with bare trees. All the parallel lines converge towards the distance where a right-turn is just visible.

Assistant Lectureship in Medieval Irish and Celtic Studies at Maynooth (from Prof Deborah Hayden):

The Department of Early Irish (Maynooth University) is advertising a 12-month Assistant Lectureship contract for the 2026-27 academic year (application deadline 22 March 2026, with an anticipated start-date of 1 September). Further details here:

https://my.corehr.com/pls/nuimrecruit/apply?id=039883

Prof Hayden adds that this position is a relief position to cover her teaching for next academic year, and that she is happy to share her teaching materials with the successful candidate.

#CelticStudies #Irish #medieval #Maynooth #AcademicJobs

@medievodons

The full Moon rising over Ladychapel church near #Maynooth.

This and the last few photos I shared were all shot on the same evening cycle within that half hour as the sky darkens. So rare to get such a clear horizon for so long around here 🙂

A portrait-oriented night shot of a small church with a short pointed spire on the left, and a triangular gable on the right. The church is lit by a yellow spotlight and the sky behind is not quite fully black, retaining a hint of navy-blue. A small full Moon is rising just to the right of the triangular gable, silhouetting big bare trees behind the church.

Happy Imbolc #ireland #stbrigid #maynooth

The first little purple crocuses of the year peeping up along the Royal Canal towpath as it backs onto some gardens in #Maynooth. #Bloomscrolling

A low close view of seven tightly rolled long pointed purple flower buds with white veins growing up between dark green tree-pointed ivy leaves under a hedgerow.

A bleak, but dry and calm, afternoon along the #RoyalCanal as an #IrishRail Commuter train starts it’s journey from #Maynooth towards Dublin.

A wide landscape view down a long straight stretch of a tree-lined rural canal with a gravel towpath on the near bank, and a railway line on the far bank. The parallel lines diverge from the right background to the near foreground. A railcar-type dark green train with white doors and a yellow square front approaches in the mid-ground.

This shot of some rare winter sun on the nose of an #IrishRail Commuter train approaching #Maynooth along the #RoyalCanal has been sitting in my camera roll for a few days — I forgot I snapped it on one of my few recent umbrella-free walks!

A landscape view of a square-fronted railcar-type train approaching along the far bank of a rural canal under a mostly clear blue sky with a few fluffy white clouds as the low winter sun peeps through the bare trees to strike the train’s yellow front.

These winter flowering Pansies are really breaking up the January gloom in the various flower pots decorating the grounds around #CartonHouse near #Maynooth. #Bloomscrolling

A close but wide portrait-oriented view of a purple and white flower growing in a raised pot next to a path. The path as well as tall trees lining it and a pole with signposts are visible behind the flower in soft focus. The sky above is out of focus but clearly overcast.

My photographic challenge for 2026 is to shoot more portrait-oriented shots of places, so I’m getting some practice in with this view of the #CartonHouse boathouse near #Maynooth on a pretty gloomy winter day.

A portrait-oriented view down a curving gravel path through a large lawn dotted with large bare oak trees towards a small lake with a stone boathouse on the far bank. There are a mix of more bare deciduous trees and evergreen trees behind the boathouse, and a dull grey overcast sky above.

The very first signs of spring I’ve seen in #Maynooth this year are these little Snowdrops just starting to flower under the trees in #CartonHouse. #Bloomscrolling

A low close view of small white bell-shaped flowers growing at the base of a mossy tree. The small flowers hang down from their own dedicated thin stems growing between thin grassy dark green leaves.

Orion over the silhouettes ruins of Taghadoe church and round tower a little south of #Maynooth. #astrophotography

A wide portrait-oriented night shot looking at the sky over a silhouetted skyline. The trees along the skyline are broken by the outline of a triangular gable with two small turrets in each end and one more visible from the back of the building and a large cylindrical tower. The distinctive shape of the constellation of Orion is visible above and to the right of the tower.

We had a very plain but really quite strong auroral display last night — no detail at all, but very bright green and red glows over the northern horizon. #aurora #astrophotography #Maynooth

A landscape-oriented wide night shot with the silhouettes of trees framing the bottom and left of the scene. There are clouds along the horizon, but above those is a strong green glow, then above that a slightly dimmer red glow, and a few stars are seen peppering the whole scene.

The big bare-branched old oak trees in #CartonHouse near #Maynooth make for impressive silhouettes in the winter months.

A square-cropped wide black and white view of a large tree with bare branches standing on a large lawn. The sky above is overcast and lightly textured, and more bare trees are visible in the background below the hero tree’s branches.

There’s a single Darwin’s Barberry bush brightening up the canal towpath opposite #Maynooth station, I presume it’s a garden escape, but regardless, loving it’s splash of bright orange in the January grey! #Bloomscrolling

#maynooth

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