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Iconic Connemara dwellings of contrasting fates

Driving throughout Connemara, one can expect to see many and varied sights usually of great natural beauty but sometimes ones of great traditions some harking back to the earlier times of much tougher but perhaps simpler lifestyles. This is perhaps best seen in the iconic stone houses and outbuildings to be found ...

A practical layout for growing your own

Well as the wet weather continued unabated, limiting our progress on landscaping works, we did however manage to make some progress with the layout to the new Vegetable garden. A simple but structured area layout was agreed featuring ornamental planting on the front perimeter with Box hedging (Buxus sempervirens) and two very ...

Grand views by the Glann Road, Oughterard

The joy of it all! A stroll along the Glann Road, within a stone's throw distance of Oughterard and the nearby Great Corrib lakeshores. Connemara looks well any time of the year, but during these late Autumnal days when daylight seems to take on an even more vivid brightness causing the colours ...

Granite Setts a Driveway with Style

Well in spite of the ongoing wet weather, we continue to make progress and today the remaining Granite Setts were installed which marks I suppose a key point in the completion of our hard landscaping of the Front Garden/Driveway. We can now concenmtrate on finalising levels to complete the compaction and ...

Connemara Natural Stone walling

In Oughterard where for many people Connemara begins, can be seen a wide range of natural stone walling, from the rough random rubble stone types to the more refined dressed stone finishes. I am always impressed to see natural stone walls of all shapes, sizes and types and throughout the West of Ireland ...

PLANEXPO, RDS 3-5th Nov 2009

We will be exhibiting (Stand C36A) a range of our Interior and Outdoor Products & Features at PLANEXPO. http://www.plan-expo.com

Room for a view

No need here to close your eyes and imagine the Summerhouse or Gazebo of your dreams! As our latest project reveals, we're building and installing Summerhouses as individual as their owners and some with unique individual differences just like our clients. All are perfectly built, using the very best materials and all guaranteed to ...

Setting the Granite Driveway

Well the weather conditions have unfortunately deteriorated so badly as to bring a halt to any prospect of progress with works on granite setts in Driveway and planting of rear garden. However before the recent heavy rain showers we did manage to make some progress with the granite works. I ...

Christmas Turkey.. two tempting grow your own

They say free range Turkey tastes fantastic, well if that's true and I've no reason to doubt it, what could be a better start to enjoying free range turkey for christmas than to grow your own? Recently I collected two 13 week old Bronze Turkeys from Stephen in Co Louth which will ...

Trees to please

After earlier planting of Olive and Acers, our tree planting of rear garden resumed today, this stage the emphasis was on our 'native' trees including Sorbus aucuparia 'Autumn Spire' and Sorbus acu. 'Joseph Rock' (Mountain Ash), Betula utilis Jaquemontii (Himalayan Birch), Malus Evereste (Ornamental Crab) and Prunus Amanogawa (Flagpole Cherry). We chose these ...