This is Knockmealdown Mountain (2,605 feet) on the Waterford/Tipperary border. Taken on Tuesday last when there was a dusting of snow on top. During the Irish Famine in the late 1840's the authorities arranged for various building projects in order to give work to people (there was no social welfare in those days - if you needed money for food you had to work for it). One of those projects was, amazingly, building a wall across the ridge of the Knockmealdown mountains...for no particular reason as far as I know...just to have people doing something. So the poor men who built this had to trudge up and down the mountains every day and in all weathers in order to survive. Extraordinary times.
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