What is recorded here

An Cnoc Buí is a small tree plantation in Galway bogland where a memorial stone praises Cecil Coulter and Louisa Alice for turning wilderness into beauty between 1918 and 1946. The stone stands below a pigeon loft in a house once built as stables, and it may point toward the loss of their son Conrad Coryton in World War I. Whatever grief drove them, they answered it by planting, building and welcoming others into a place the bog had kept bare.

In a small tree plantation in bogland. This inscribed plaque was recorded by Robinson (1985, 20-21) who noted it below a pigeon loft in one of the gable walls of a building that had formerly been stables but was subsequently converted into an L-shaped house. The inscription reads: 'Remember as you pass Cecil Coulter and Louisa Alice his wife who in this place 1918-1946 met sorrow and adversity with fortitude and all who came their way with loving kindness and who in their day by their vision and their labours made this wilderness a place of beauty.' Their memorial tablet in Roundstone Protestant church (GA050-024001-), which mentions their son, Conrad Coryton, who was killed in World War I aged nineteen, may explain their sorrow (ibid.). Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 16 February 2023 Robinson, T. 1985 Mapping South Connemara, parts 1-29, Cashal, Carna, Cill Chiarain. Roundstone.

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