Description
The Bluestack Hills, Carrickmahon, Kilteevoge, County Donegal, Ireland
Many areas of Ireland are surprisingly sparsely populated even in today’s times. Once you arrive at this townland of Carrickmahon in the heart of Donegal, all becomes evident. It’s not unusual to find a single cottage surrounded by many hectares of land, where there are more sheep than human inhabitants to be found.
This traditional cottage is the heart of a small sheep farm situated miles away from any other dwelling. Set on an interesting landscape with lush green pastures rolling right up to its front door, before suddenly transforming to brown boglands as far as can be seen right from the back door outwards into the Bluestack mountains in the distance.
The view from the front door of this little cottage shows a completely different landscape from the view from the back door. This is mainly due to generations of hard-working farmers tending these lands with donkeys & bare hands. Hundreds of years of grazing sheep has eventually fertilised the soil, slowly transforming and breaking it from barren bogland into green fields.
Just imagine living here… having these two beautiful natural Irish landscapes, a mere half turn apart from each other 
