Below are some pictures taken during three 'expeditions' up the Ox Mountains behind home in Cloonacool, County Sligo.  Numbers 1 to 2 were taken while going to the large rock which lies on the hill behind the house, a first trip for my nephew and neighbours!  Pictures 6 to 12 were taken while bringing a neice and nephew on their first ever trip to the Tulavilla Lakes.  13 to 24 were taken three days later while attempting to make it to the Cloonacool Lakes.  Alas I did not make it! To veiw a larger view of each picture click on the images below. Use your browser back button to get back to this page.
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[02] A winter shot of the hill behind us at home with tree!.	[03] Christmas 2005! It came for One day but it fell nevertheless.	[04] A white Christmas!
[02] Christmas in Mullaun.	[03] Christmas in Mullaun.	[04] Real Christmas Tree's.
[02] Mullaun in Winter.	[03] Fog in the dawn over the Moy valley.	[04] Our pet Robin! Sort of.
[02] In the Ox Mountains on the 2006 failed expedition to the Cloonacool Lakes.	[03] The other Cloonacool Bridge.	[04] Spring time.
[02] One of Mullauns wonderfull trees! I'm so easily amused.	[03] Mullaun in the Spring.	[04] Another hill side tree in Mullaun. I really should stop this.
[02] A veiw of our wee part of Mullaun townland, looking into the Moy River Valley.	[03] The Rock!  This massive rocks sits contently high up above the home in Mullaun.	[04] The hillside below the rock.
[05] A sea of yellow!  A colourful growth of Whne (Gorse) bushes near home at the foot of the hills/	[07] The eastern most lake of the three Tullavila Lakes	[08] The outlet of the lake.  A stream runs from here down the hill into the River Moy.
[09] Calm Water.	[10] A flat bowl shaped area of the hill, near to the lakes, shows some of the openess of the mountains.  Delightfully quiet up here!	[11] Looking back, returning from the lakes.  The broken ground gives way to grass and heather.
[12] One of the rocky expanses that stand on the lake shore.	[13] Two days later, I headed west looking for the Cloonacool Lakes.  met some of the neighbours along the way!	[14] At a point above the village, behind the school perhaps, one of a number of streams bisects the way, running on its journey to the Moy.
[15] Looking back up that stream, one of many small rocky cascades.	[16] As you delve further back into the hills, about 1 1/2 halfs hours from home, you can see the Tullavilla Lakes peep over the bog to your left.	[17] The quest for the Cloonacool Lakes reachs an unsucessful end!
[18] The best I get is the the watery bog hole in the middle left!	[19] My destination lies at least one further hour of uncomfoprtable sodden walking over this crest.  it was getting on in the day so I sadly gave up and returned home.  I will return!	[20] I am left to enjoy these views down onto the village from high above it, framed by this rock, split in two over the years.
[21] That Rock, again with village and valley floor behind.	[22] The Tullavilla Lakes again, peering over the boggy wastes.	[23] The veiw to the North East, over the top of the Mad river Valley, onto the approaches to Sligo.
[24] Cloonacool!  Sitting on the base of the Moy valley