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**The Smartphone Photographer** @AverageS@pixelfed.social · May 18

The Smartphone Photographer @AverageS@pixelfed.social

Seaside Serenity. #AnnestownBeach #Ireland #Waterford #IrishCoast #CoastalViews #Sea #BeachLife #SmartphonePhotography #Photography

A high-angle shot shows a curved sandy beach nestled between rocky cliffs and the clear blue sea in Annestown, Ireland. Gentle waves roll onto the shore, and seaweed-covered rocks are visible in the foreground.

#photography

**Backpack and Snorkel** @backpackandsnorkel@mastodon.world · May 12

May 12

Backpack and Snorkel @backpackandsnorkel@mastodon.world

The Irish Silver Museum in Waterford, Ireland, is a silver & jewelry store with an attached exhibition of silver items. Among them is a sword that King Edward IV gave to the city. #Silver #WaterfordMuseums #Waterford #Ireland https://backpackandsnorkel.com/Ireland/Day6/#564

**Joe Mansfield** @helvick@mastodon.ie · May 6

May 6

Joe Mansfield @helvick@mastodon.ie

This extended sunny spell is starting to deliver some really nice sunsets.

#waterford
#Dungarvan

Deep red sky just after sunset over the distant mountains reflected in the waters of Dungarvan bay. A few of the pinpoint street lights of Dungarvan shine out if the dark shadow at the base of the mountains just above the water.

Four gnarly yew trees loom as silhouettes in the foreground providing a frame covering the bottom half of the photograph.

**Joe Mansfield** @helvick@mastodon.ie · Apr 27 *

Apr 27 *

Joe Mansfield @helvick@mastodon.ie

I came across an interesting pair of very old oyster shells today on the beach and I wonder if these two blackened shells are actually native flat oysters.

They look very different to the Gigas/Rock oyster that is at the top of the image. The latter are farmed here so the beach is covered in thousands of those shells but I think the other two look more like the native species and I’m now curious about whether they can be found here still.

Anyone know for sure?

Picture of three oyster shells on a patch sandy beach.

The oyster at the stop is mature and relatively recently deceased. Its shell is mostly white with a bit of purple and white and is elongated in shape with a very triangular cross section on the top shell. This is definitely a farmed Gigas/Rock Oyster from one of the farmed oyster beds on the sandbanks off this beach.

The two lower shells are much older and blackened from age and time spent in the coastal mud. They are also much flatter and more palmate or fan shaped than the Gigas oyster, and might be just very flat Gigas but could possibly be the native flat oyster that used to be harvested here in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

#waterford #biodiversity #oyster

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**Joe Mansfield** @helvick@mastodon.ie · Apr 27

Apr 27

Joe Mansfield @helvick@mastodon.ie

I also came across this today. I’m not entirely sure what bird laid this egg but the UK Woodland Trust guide makes me lean towards Magpie or Jackdaw. The egg looks more like the former but there are a lot more of the latter in the area.

https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/blog/2020/05/identify-eggshells/

An empty and broken, probably hatched, wild bird egg sitting in a clump of grass and clover.

The egg is a very light green base colour with a fine speckling of brown spots.

Only half the egg is here but what is left is intact , looking more like it hatched than it was eaten by a predator.

#biodiversity #waterford #ireland

**Joe Mansfield** @helvick@mastodon.ie · Apr 27

Apr 27

Joe Mansfield @helvick@mastodon.ie

It’s starting to be wildflower season on the Cunnigar again. A bit early for the orchids but there are plenty of bluebells, primroses, and violets.
#bloomscrolling #waterford #ireland

A spray of about 20 bluebell florets in full flower with all the flower trumpets open with the petals at the end curling back to show the lighter interior.

The bluebells are on a curved stalk starting on the right hand edge of tge photo, rising up as it reaches to the left, leaning over and down to the left hand edge of the photo.

The backdrop is a mix of green dune grasses with a scattering of old dried stalks.

A small spray of 6 bluebell florets in flower with the flower trumpets open with the petals at the end curling back to show the lighter interior. All the flower heads are clumped together roughly in a curved stalk starting at the top if the flower stem all pointing at and angle down to the ground.

Two light green grass stalks are in the foreground to the left of the bluebells with the green and brown backdrop grasses out of focus in the photos background.

A wood violet fully open with two petals pointing upwards and three pointing downwards.

**jdmccafferty** @jdmccafferty@mastodon.online · Apr 27

Apr 27

jdmccafferty @jdmccafferty@mastodon.online

27 Apr 1583: Marmaduke Midleton Bishop of St. David's former Bishop of #Waterford & Lismore, alleged bigamist & simoniac, created DTh by #Oxford university #otd probably in the hope he'd appoint more Oxford graduates to his diocese (AThomas)

**Joe Mansfield** @helvick@mastodon.ie · Apr 24

Apr 24

Joe Mansfield @helvick@mastodon.ie

My mostly neglected back garden has thrown up a solitary iris that was looking very sparkly after the heavy fog has rolled in and given everything a blanket of water droplets.

A purple iris in full flower seen head on with two flower heads to the left and right showing a yellow central area leading funny the core of the flower. Three florets are almost completely covered in a five must of waterholes giving the petals starkly bubble like texture. The slim green iris stems and some of the background grass stalks are also covered in water droplets.

The flower is positioned in the upper center of the picture covering more than half the width of the picture framed by a grass backdrop that is softly out of focus.

#bloomscrolling #waterford

**Joe Mansfield** @helvick@mastodon.ie · Apr 24

Apr 24

Joe Mansfield @helvick@mastodon.ie

Quite an unusual visitor in the bay today, a ‘super yacht’ called the Akula, registered out of the Caymans.

I assume they are stopping off for a round of Golf at the Gold Coast.

It’s on its way to Iceland and the Arctic apparently.

60m cruiser style yacht with red hull and white superstructure anchored in Dungarvan bay just offshore of the Gold Coast Golf course.

The flag of the Cayman Islands is flying just above the main aft deck.

Screenshot from the Super Yacht Times detailing the Akula.

Akula Yacht 59.4 m (194'8" ) | 1,241 GT
Built by Rossinavi | 2024

Akula Yacht Overview

Akula is a motor yacht with an overall length of 59.4 m. The yacht's builder is Rossinavi from Italy, who launched Akula in 2024. The superyacht has a beam of 11.3 m, a draught of 3.5 m and a volume of 1,241 GT.

#waterford #superyacht

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**Joe Mansfield** @helvick@mastodon.ie · Apr 16

Apr 16

Joe Mansfield @helvick@mastodon.ie

@_thegeoff

Pretty spectacular on the phone, not so easy to see by eye but it was there.

iPhone 15 Pro Max with long exposures (10-30sec) from a tripod.

Aurora over Dungarvan bay looking towards Bonmahon from Helvick.

Lots of purple and green covering most of the sky.

Aurora over Dungarvan bay looking towards the Comeragh Plateau from Helvick. An LED streetlight is flaring in the foreground.

Lots of purple and green covering most of the sky.

Aurora over Dungarvan bay looking north west towards the Gold Coast from Helvick with an LED streetlight flaring in the foreground.

Lots of purple columns and green bands covering most of the lower sky.

Wide angle shot of aurora over Dungarvan bay looking towards Dungarvan from Helvick.

Lots of purple and green covering most of the lower sky.

#auroraborealis #ireland #waterford

**Joe Mansfield** @helvick@mastodon.ie · Apr 16

Apr 16

Joe Mansfield @helvick@mastodon.ie

The odds of some level of Aurora being visible here later should the solar storm tip back up to the levels it was at this afternoon are now looking fairly good.

Having a clear blue sky while the disturbance level is in the hundreds of nT is uncommon.

AuroraWatch forecast showing disturbance levels in the hundreds of nano Tesla.

It’s a bar chart with low green bars until 12:00 noon, then two short yellow bars up to 14:00, and then a spike if re d bars rising to 700nT at 20:00 UTc, before falling back to Orange at 175nT at 21:00.

Panorama looking north across Dungarvan bay under a completely cloudless darkening blue sky. The sun has set to the west along the left hand edge of the picture turning the sky a golden colour on that side of the picture.

The foreground is dark with some trees on the left in the middle distance silhouetted against the water of the bay, and Helvick harbour on the right partially obscured by a cordalyne australensis.

#waterford #auroraborealis

**ElliPirelli** @Ellis_ramblings@troet.cafe · Apr 8

Apr 8

ElliPirelli @Ellis_ramblings@troet.cafe

Help please!

Question for the #Irish here.
Does anyone can tell me please at which graveyard I might have taken this picture in December 2009?

The last picture in the folder was taken in Narrabaun North, Kilmacow, Co. Kilkenny some 45 minutes earlier.
So it must be in the area southern #Kilkenny, Co #Waterford or Co #SouthTipperary

#MastoDoaine
#Ireland

Highcross at graveyard with an arch of a chapel ruin in the background.

**jdmccafferty** @jdmccafferty@mastodon.online · Apr 3

Apr 3

jdmccafferty @jdmccafferty@mastodon.online

3 Apr 1189: St. Celsus or Cellach, Abbot of #Armagh, a very significant politician & reformer is buried in the tomb of the bishops of Lismore #Waterford #otd

(National Museum of Ireland: Lismore Crozier photographed by jemartin03 on flicker)

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**gentlegardener** @gentlegardener@mastodon.scot · Apr 2

Apr 2

gentlegardener @gentlegardener@mastodon.scot

Cold night,spring oven supper on the fly:
islay whisky +10% in vintage #waterford crystal.
#carrs crackers +10%
Brie +20%
traderjoes tarte aux champignons product of france +20%.
A wee General Mills maybe us made pizza ?

Thin mint chocolate Girl Scout cookies baked in USA Hmmm

Tomorrows #Smithfield pork tenderloin courtesy of its Chinese owner, pork maybe not Virginia

Grow it gift it share it trade it thrift it. Buy and cellar the good stuff for days like today.

**Backpack and Snorkel** @backpackandsnorkel@mastodon.world · Mar 28

Mar 28

Backpack and Snorkel @backpackandsnorkel@mastodon.world

**Backpack and Snorkel** @backpackandsnorkel@mastodon.world · Mar 26

Mar 26

Backpack and Snorkel @backpackandsnorkel@mastodon.world

The Medieval Museum will be one of the highlights of your Waterford trip. It tells the story of medieval Waterford and we strongly recommend taking the 45 min guided tour. How did you like it? #WaterfordMuseums #Waterford #Ireland https://backpackandsnorkel.com/Ireland/Day6/#562

**Cork Coast** @corkcoast@mastodon.ie · Mar 26 *

Mar 26 *

Cork Coast @corkcoast@mastodon.ie

Sperm Whale yesterday, #Waterford

#IWDG:
https://iwdg.ie/sperm-whale-in-waterford-estuary-march-25th-2025/

Largest Toothed Predator, 18 meters long, <57 Tons

Deep Diver: I3,000 meters

Huge Head and Brain

Powerful echolocation clicks, loudest animal

#speirgorm #whale #spermWhale #ireland #irish #dolphin #mastodaoine

©Watchorn

**Andreas Plach** @Plach@social.tchncs.de · Mar 26

Mar 26

Andreas Plach @Plach@social.tchncs.de

IBM is building up a new #IBM development location in #Waterford #Ireland . The focus of the team will be industrial research related to the low level #Linux kernel and #firmware development for the #ibmz .
This will be a unique opportunity to shape for the Linux #opensource Ecosystem!
Are you interested in developing operating systems and contributing to Open-Source and eager to become part of an worldwide #development community?