Sligo Hawthorn, May 2016

Sligo's landscape at its most unspoilt and mystical. Jonathan found this tree on high ground between the Ox Mountains and the Bricklieves. The land had laid untouched, ungrazed in a number of years and the meadow grass was thick and up to his chest in places. The hawthorne tree projects out from a limestone ledge - part of the caste limestone landscape that breaks through the surface on high ground in places in sligo.