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Slievemore: the deserted village beneath an Irish mountain
A hillside of stone cottages on Ireland’s Atlantic edge, emptied by hunger and never reoccupied.
Region · Ireland
Abandoned Ireland
Deserted villages and famine ruins. Ireland's abandonment is rural and long — cottages and whole townlands emptied by hunger, emigration and time.
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