This was a difficult place to live; poor quality soils, harsh weather including wind, heavy rain and snow as well as the remoteness of the high mountain location meant only a few hardy souls could truly make it here.
As the 20th century advanced this farm, along with many others in Ireland, was left for nature to reclaim.
Sheep are still grazed here but no farmhouses exist this high in the mountains.
See here for another scene featuring one of Ireland's finest trees, the Scots pines of Pine Island in Connemara.
