Cuilcagh Mountain, Ireland July 2018

At the top of Cuilcagh, after following this gravelly path to a boardwalk, sits a cairn built as the final resting place by the early inhabitants of Ireland. Even walking up towards the base of the mountain, you can understand why this place was chosen for burying the deceased. 

The gravelly path leading up to Cuilcagh Mountain. 

The path winds through a blanket bog on a farm's property where sheep spend their days chewing on grass and taking cover from the occasional rain shower. 

By the time we reached the car park for the hiking path, it was already too late in the day to make it up to the top of the mountain, but we were able to make it to where the gravel path turns into a wooden boardwalk, built to further protect the fragile bog as people ascend the mountain, and in turn protect hikers from falling into holes covered by the thick bog.

Cuilcagh Mountain with the gravel path and boardwalk. 

Recently we returned from Norway where we took the time to explore some of the site such as biking from Horten to see the Borre Mounds. It was here that a viking ship burial was excavated, and can now be seen in the Viking Ship Museum in Oslo.