Killiney Hill

Thousands of travellers pass daily under a secret world as Dublin’s DART train glides between it and the horizonless expanse of blue it looks onto - ‘Dublin’s Bay of Naples’. Rambling trails rise from sea to summit between tumbling walls, peppered with delicate flowers, concealing gorgeous Mediterranean gardens.

As we climb, we catch glimpses of Greystones and Bray, then Dublin Bay, the Great South Wall and Howth Head. Rambling trails & tumbling walls meander shore to summit. With 40 steps & around a turn, granite, gorse & heather vanish.

Finally at the peak the views sweep to the south over the Wicklow Mountains and to the north over Dublin, as far as the Mournes in Ulster.

We see all of Dublin and beyond but it falls away into the distance.

A sea of jewel-like azure enwreathes and entrances us,

on this island in the sky.