Kilcooley Abbey was a Cistercian abbey dating from 1182 close to the village of Gortnahoe in Tipperary, Ireland. The carved archway in this shot leads to the Sacristy and has many carvings, such as a scene depicting the crucifixion and a mermaid holding a mirror, which was thought to depict vanity. After the Reformation and its abandonment, Kilcooley passed into the possession of the Earl of Ormond. It was granted to the English-born judge Sir Jerome Alexander in the 1630s and through his daughter, Elizabeth, it passed by marriage to the Barker baronets of Bocking Hall, the last of whom died in 1818.
A shot taken of the New River Gorge Bridge from a light aircraft. The steel arch bridge sits 3,030 feet (924 m) long over the New River Gorge near Fayetteville, Fayetteville, in the Appalachian Mountains of the eastern United States. With an arch 1,700 feet (518 m) long the New River Gorge Bridge was for many years the world's longest single-span arch bridge and is now the third longest. The roadway crossing the New River Gorge Bridge at 876 feet (267 m) above the New River makes it one of the highest vehicular bridges in the world, and is currently the third highest in the United States. The bridge sits within the US National Park Service's New River Gorge National River area. West Virginia, USA
Fat cats adorn wooden wishing plaques at a shinto shrine in Tokyo. The plaques are known as Ema 絵馬, translated as 'picture horse', and are intended to bring luck to the person who hangs them. These plaques funnel a long tradition that started during the 8th century Nara period where people donated horses, seen as the “vehicles of gods”, to the shrines to assist with their prayer. Over the subsequent years due to the financial cost of horses, the tradition shifted first to pictures of horses on wood, and eventually to pictures of other animals. Tokyo, Japan.
