J0817 : Ponies and sheep graze on either side of the Omeath Road above Edentubber

taken 6 years ago, near to Flurrybridge, Co Armagh, Northern Ireland

Ponies and sheep graze on either side of the Omeath Road above Edentubber
Ponies and sheep graze on either side of the Omeath Road above Edentubber
This road running entirely within the territory of the Irish Republic crosses the northern end of the Cooley Mountains between the Townlands of Edentubber near Jonesborough and Ardaghy near Omeath. It was constructed in a piecemeal fashion between 1941 and 1975. The reason for its initial construction was the need to exploit the peat deposits (100,000 tonnes of dry peat) in the Clermont hills when UK coal imports to the Republic were drastically reduced during The Emergency (World War II). The section from Ardaghy to Clermont was the first to be constructed and incorporated the famous hairpin bends. A separate track was built up the northern escarpment from Edentubber. The two roads costing a total of £1,800 were paid for by the Irish Government. At the same time volunteers from Ravensdale built a green track up from Annaverna to the Clermont diggings.
In 1947 the Ardaghy and Edentubber gravel tracks were joined. The road was further improved and tarred when the RTE mast was built on the summit of Clermont Carn in the 1970s.

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Thursday, 7 June, 2018   (more nearby)
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Thursday, 14 June, 2018
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Uplands  Roads, Road transport  Moorland 
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Irish: geotagged! J 086 175 [100m precision]
WGS84: 54:5.7602N 6:20.3935W
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Irish: geotagged! J 088 175
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West-northwest (about 292 degrees)
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