Stone Walls

On our bus trip we learned that during the potato famine, rather than just give the food needed to survive, the English felt the Irish should work for the food.  Rather than finding any real work, they had people building stone walls that stretched up the Irish hills going nowhere and having no purpose whatsoever.  An exercise in futility - essentially humiliation rather than production of something meaningful.  I wasn't able to get a good picture of all the stone walls meandering aimlessly up the hillsides.  I did, however, get a picture of an old stone wall and it is truly amazing that they just stack the stones and the walls hold for years to come, with no mortar, nothing keeping them together but proper stacking!