Description

The Irish naturalist Robert Lloyd Praeger described the Nephin Beg mountains in 1937 as “the very loneliest place in this country, for the hills themselves are encircled by this vast area of trackless bog”. He also said: “You are thrown at the same time back upon yourself and forward against the mystery and majesty of nature, and you may feel dimly something of your own littleness and your own greatness . . .”