Súil Eile: Sallins (part 2)

Sunday, 30 August 2009

Marie Reed said...: I love this virtual visit to Ireland! I always feel so swept away. Have you ever heard of Ballybin Fruit Farms, Naul,Co? It's about 12 miles outside of Dublin. It's a pretty random question:); 30 August 2009 at 11:48
Zuzana said...: I hope one day I will be able to visit Dublin. I think it is a stunning city and your images are a definitive proof that my thoughts are right.;); 30 August 2009 at 14:36
Blogaire said...: I don't actually know Ballybin Fruit Farm, but there are lots of fruit and vegetable farms located in north County Dublin, around Naul, Lusk, Swords, Rush and Balbriggan. The work is very labor intensive and a lot of people growing up in that area would have worked on the farms at one time or another. Nowadays there are Polish and Latvian people doing most of the work.
Interestingly, there are websites that let you find work on farms in Ireland and Europe. I met a Student from Belgium who was heading to a remote part of West Clare to work on a farm for 2 weeks after which he had secured work on another farm in Galway. It's a working holiday really, you get food and accommodation but little or no pay. I traveled to Carcasonne in the south of France in my pre-internet youth to pick grapes - only to discover they had a really good Summer that year and the grapes had already been harvested!; 30 August 2009 at 15:34