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Octagon ruin. Pic: GG
or our latest ramble chat with the mighty Shay Clear, we thought we’d
cover two of the local viewing points high up over Delgany.
In many ways, the viewing rock at the peak of Kindlestown Woods and the one at the Octagon over in Bellevue Woods serve as bookends, one looking out east, the other west, with a fine, healthy, half-hour walk in-between the two for good measure.

Pic: Fiona Alston
Hey, if the geese can do it, so can you.
The fact that the Bellevue House once stood between these two points would suggest the La Touche family may have laid claim to both at one point, having, of course built the Octagon as either a summer house or, suggests Shay here, some kind of thatched dwelling or store room.
Read on for the truth, my fat friend.

Coolagad’s spread