Tag: Wild Atlantic Way

Ireland's first Female Botanist

Festival 2021: Saturday 14 to Sunday 22 August

07/08/2021

The Festival starts in a week’s time, on Saturday 14th and this year contains a mix of self guided or DIY events, two online art workshops and in-person outdoor events in special places from Bantry through Ballylickey, Coomhola and Glengarriff to Adrigole and up to Kealkil and Gougane Barra. With three ways of taking part,…
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Breakfast at Ballylickey

02/09/2016

When botanists Lewis Dillwyn and Joseph Woods visited Ellen Hutchins at Ballylickey in 1809, they were invited to breakfast with the Hutchins family. Ellen’s letters often mention breakfast: “Mrs Taylor spent a day here lately. She came out to breakfast and did not go home till evening, was in excellent spirits and very pleasant.” Ellen…
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Ellen and James Mackay, botanist, Trinity College Dublin

16/08/2015

Ellen absorbed herself in natural history, specifically the study of plants, as a healthy outdoor occupation and something to occupy her mind as a distraction from her responsibilities of caring for her elderly and sick mother and disabled brother, and her own intermittent ill health. She often felt lonely, living fairly remotely and without anyone…
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Botanists at Ballylickey 1809

03/08/2015

A picture of Bantry Bay and the Hutchins household at Ballylickey Ardnagashel broad, Bantry Bay In the summer of 1809, botanists Lewis Dillwyn, Joseph Woods and William Leach travelled to West Cork, and they had with them a letter of introduction from Dr Whitley Stokes of Dublin to Ellen Hutchins at Ballylickey. From Lewis Dillwyn’s diary…
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