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Don't get too excited about this one - it's been mooted for 15 years.
Also - how did you guess? - it's not for skiers but it'll be a rare (unique?) opportunity to ride a cablecar in Ireland.
The cablecar will link the island of Inishbiggle in County Mayo to the mainland. It's a 2.5 million Euros project, and the latest news - from The Mayo News - is that it's going ahead.
Well, according to this news report from 1996, that's not the first time this has been said!
So, could we have official Snowheads approval for the Inishbiggle Cablecar, please? Queue here for lift passes.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Does it take donkeys (and carts) as well?
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Er, no hills then?
Or snow?
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Inishbiggle - great name for a place.
I'm terribly sorry, David, but the lack of mountain + snow to go with cablecar has sort of dampened my enthusiasm. How about this fine example, Blackgang chine chair lift
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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" Inish " is the gaelic for island. Its a very small island off Achill island and the mainland. I've got a link for a picture ( which probabaly will not work - failing that just type in Inishbiggle )
www.eircom.net/~caoimh1/oilean/achill2.html
The mountains in Co. Mayo at just 650 meters are not renowned for skiing!
I have family in the adjacent County Galway, and know the area reasonably well.
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So what does Eilean mean then? Or is Scottish gaelic totally different from Irish? Sorry - don't really have a clue about these things (only moved up here a year or so ago).
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Both the words Inish and Oilean are irish gaelic for island. Don't know much about scottish gaelic but a lot of the words, I am told, are similar
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joseph wrote: |
The mountains in Co. Mayo at just 650 meters are not renowned for skiing! |
That might to do with the effects of the NAD as anything. How high are the French Juras?
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Ian Hopkinson wrote: |
How about this fine example, Blackgang chine chair lift |
That was the very first chair lift I ever went on, would have been in the summer 1977 or 1978.
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Sadly, even the highest mountains of Ireland (which are only a bit lower than the Scottish peaks) apparently collect little snow. A few years ago we took a summer holiday at the foot of the Conor Pass on the Dingle Peninsula (an utterly magnificent destination), which is an impressively high mountain road in the midst of some of highest summits, and I asked a local farmer if the pass was ever blocked.
He gave me the impression he'd never seen a snowplough in the area.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Yeah, same here. It is/was actually at Alum Bay, by the Needles where the different coloured sands are. The tourist experience was to walk down the trail, fill a lightbulbed shapes glass er, bulb with layers of the different coloured sand, seal it, get the chairlift back up, go home and display object for all to see.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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I gave one of those to my Nan when I was about 10.
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You know it makes sense.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Oh dear, tried to use a quote and bold text in that last one but failed miserably. Just reinforcing the 'thick paddy' stereotype.....
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