The lakes, the oakwoods, the landmarks and the jaunting cars — photographs of
Killarney National Park taken across the seasons, from Ladies’ View down to the cloister at Muckross Abbey.
Ladies’ View looking down over the Upper Lake and the mountains of Killarney National ParkStill water and wooded shoreline on the Lakes of Killarney, below a hump of oak-covered mountainTorc Waterfall dropping over mossy boulders through the oakwood in Killarney National ParkThe roofless nave and pointed doorway of Muckross Abbey, the Franciscan friary founded in 1448Muckross House and its clipped lawns, the Victorian mansion at the heart of Killarney National ParkThe ancient yew tree filling the vaulted cloister at the centre of Muckross AbbeyA stone arch bridge over the river between the Lakes of Killarney, with wooded hills behindVisitors standing on an old stone arch bridge above the rapids in Killarney National ParkWalkers on a stony hill path above the conifer woods on a guided Killarney National Park hikeTwo riders on horseback in a meadow above the Lakes of Killarney, mountains on the skylineA jaunting car horse in harness and blinkers waiting beside the kerb in Killarney townA covered jaunting car on the park drive past a thatched lodge, with a cathedral spire behindKayakers raising their paddles together on the Lakes of Killarney with the mountains beyondThe Killarney town sign carrying the County Kerry crest, framed by sunflowers at the roadside
See it from the seat of a jaunting car
Photographs only go so far. The carriage roads through the park are closed to cars, which is why the views from them look like this and a car park does not.
