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I was lucky enough to be invited to visit the west coast of Ireland this week, and what a treat it was. A day spent hundreds of miles from my desk, amongst wild, rocky and barren landscapes, criss-crossed with dry stone walls, almost utterly bereft of life. Instead of Parker Tower's airless, light-robbed office, I was tromping along epic cliffs, watching giant weather systems sweeping by - one minute howling wet and grey, the next, sunny and fresh.
After our morning meetings, we visited Dún Aengus on the north coast of Inis Mor.
Built at least 1,000 years BC, little is known of its original purpose, but if it had ever been used as a fort, which seems quite likely, it would have been almost impregnable.
Today we can barely imagine how humans eked out life in those times, but at Dun Aengus it would have been colder, windier, wetter and a great deal more exhilarating than most, to be sure...
(great spot for a rave, too)
