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The camera is located in Coolgreany, County Wexford, Ireland, focused on Croghan Mountain. The view is updated every 30 minutes. Click on the picture to open it in its own window

Coolgreany is the birthplace of the late James Liddy (1935-2008), poet and author. He called Croghan, often referred to as Croghan Kinsella, "The Blue Mountain" and published the following poem in his book "A White Thought in a White Shade" (1987).

BLUE MOUNTAIN

Blue Mountains are of themselves blue mountains
And White clouds are of themselves white clouds
And there is a blue mountain, Croghan Kinsella,
And around it there are often white clouds.

Whether all things are accurately themselves
Or modifications of each other I do not know,
But clear mornings from my bathroom window
I see white clouds on a blue mountain.

James Liddy (1935-2008)

See also the poem entitled 'Coolgreany', also from his book "A White Thought in a White Shade" (1987).

For more information on James Liddy, autobiography, his poetry, his obituary, etc, click on the link below:
James Liddy: The Doctor's House.

Also see a review of Askeaton Sequenceby James Liddy.

Croghan Mountain.

The summit of Croghan lies on the border between Counties Wexford and Wicklow and is the highest point on that border. It is sometimes referred to as Croghan Kinsella Mountain after a (historically) powerful local family. This name may be to distinguish it from Croaghanmoira. In Irish the name is Cruachán Uí Chinnsealaigh and literally translated this means little stack of the Kinsella family.

Croghan has a height of 606 metres and is an isolated peak giving a different view from the rest of the Wicklow mountains. It's summit can easily be reached by using forestry tracks and is identifiable by a group of rocks and a trig pillar. The River Bann rises from its southern slopes.

Croghan was also the site of Ireland's only gold rush when a nugget was found in river gravel on the mountain in 1795. The gold is now gone, but many poor people benefited from it at the time as the gold was retrieved by mainly local people. Three thousand ounces are known to have been found.

Croghan defines the southern limit of the Wicklow Mountains. Click on the picture below to view the Croghan google satellite map.

The Wicklow Mountains

The Wicklow Mountains (Irish: Sléibhte Chill Mhantáin; including at the northern end the Dublin Mountains) are a range of mountains in the southeast of Ireland. They run in a north-south direction from south County Dublin across County Wicklow and into County Wexford. Lugnaquilla is the highest peak in the range at 925 m (3035 ft), Mullaghcleevaun at 847 m (2,780 ft) is the second highest, while the summit of Kippure is the highest point in County Dublin, at 757 m (2,484 ft). Croghan ranks 32nd in the list of 62 peaks over 300 metres.

The whole area is much frequented, especially at weekends, by Dubliners, as the region offers multiple choices of recreation, ranging from fishing to rafting to hill walking. Also in its midst lies the monastic settlement of Glendalough, believed to have been founded by St. Kevin, and now a popular tourist attraction; as well as Powerscourt Waterfall, the highest waterfall in Ireland. Below is a picture of the upper lake at Glendalough.