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Official Dog Handler
Joined: 04 May 2005
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Location: Arizona USA
Posted: Sun 12 Jun 2005, 11:55
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Index of resources for Beginners Help forum
This is an experiment. It is intended to make using the forum -- and Puppy -- more practical. Other moderators are invited to jump in where they see I've missed something. If anyone else sees something they think belongs here, please PM me (with a link to the item.
If you are new to forums:
Forum etiquette
Posting and You
If you are new to Linux:
Nice promotional website for beginners
Linux Newbie Links
Where is the source code for Puppy?
UNIX Tutorial for Beginners
(UNIX very nearly the same as Linux)
Configuring The Linux Kernel
: a tutorial/review
The Linux Command Line
The difference between a Process and a Thread
Linux Filesystem Hierarchy
Why is the Linux filesystem so *@&% complicated?
Linux Bash Commands
BASH quick reference
(Requires Flash) Very comprehensive for a quick reference
Security discussion:
CERT on Home Computer Security
CERT on Home Network Security
Pros and cons of always running as root in Puppy
Security Engineering
Downloadable book
Security under Puppy: remote access
Viruses: can I get them?
Website will test your browser's security
Encrypt files with bcrypt in Puppy
Educational discussions:
Shell Scripting
Programming in the Linux "shell." Bash, ash, busybox etc., explained
The Linux Swap Partition
How big?
Puppy and unionfs
Setting the computer clock
Daylight savings, Windows vs Linux, localtime vs utc
Intro to Puppy
Flash video tutorials for Puppy!
how the boot process works 1
Boot loader showdown
: Getting to know LILO and GRUB
/dev/loop devices
Linux vs Windows: file names and file type associations
What's a Window Manager?
discussion of Puppy's desktop
(Icons, links, etc.)
Cdrecord TAO burn glitch - two extra sectors
How to:
Use ISOmaster when remastering Puppy
Booting programs on startup
Change the mouse size and or color
Set the mouse double-click speed
Set font sizes in Mozilla, Puppy
Set clock to show day, month, year & 24 hr time, in JWM
stop the screen messages during boot
, so you can read them.
Read the contents of the MBR
Edit the GRUB menu configuration file
Edit boot stanzas in GRUB
Puppy Intro:
Puppy 2.10r1 Manual |
Unofficial PuppyLinux Guide
Boot prompt "cheatcodes" for Puppy Linux
Printed book
- 50 pages
Booting (running) from CD:
Booting 2.02 with less than 128 MB of RAM
Boot from floppy, run from CD
Boot problem with puppy 1.0.6 on notebook - simple solution
Booting Puppy and a USB keyboard: order of driver loading
How to burn a bootable CD from Windows
How to delete the Pup001 file from within Puppy
With pup001.zip on NTFS Hard Drive
Installing on and booting from HD:
How to do a "frugal" install
The recommended way to install Puppy
birth puppy by hand
- step-by-step manual hard drive installation
Enlarging the pup001 file in XP (NTFS)
Another way
, using Notepad to make .bat file
GRUB4DOS and WINGRUB
No hard drive install; configure GRUB in Windows!
(PuppyLinux Wiki page.) Good partitioning instructions.
How to run Puppy from Windows NTFS partition
How to install Puppy on Windows hard disk and dual-boot with Windows 95/98/98SE (without having to partition your hard drive.)
Interesting discussion
about partitioning a Hard Drive for dual-booting Windows and Puppy
Install Puppy to Hard Disk
(The whole enchilada)
Step by Step: Installing Puppy Linux to Your Hard Drive
Install Puppy to HD from iso, without floppy or CD
WAKEPUP 1.0 - New, alternate Puppy boot disk released
To the bit level. The
definitive GRUB webpage
Discussion about which partitioning tool in Linux is best
Installing on and booting from USB:
Alternative MBRs
Boot Puppy on USB flash from NTFS partition
(Works if your BIOS can't boot from USB!)
Booting from USB with floppy
Easiest way to install to a flash card
Helping Puppy find user_cram.fs at boot
Installing on USB
Installing on USB
Test report: installing to several types of flash memory
Newer version of syslinux works better for booting Puppy from USB
Multisession Puppy
Adding a session to DVD from command line
And naming the session
Burn fails because directories too deep
(See also
forum post, Barry's
entry on Puppy's
page, and
excellent explanation of how Mozilla Mail causes the problem.)
Burning multisession Puppy CD with Mepis' K3b
Burning multisession Puppy CD with Puppy's cdrecord
How to
save a snapshot of current state to multisession disk
Multisession DVD 1
Memorex technical reference for CDs/DVDs
(1.8 MB pdf)
Unusual ways to run Puppy
Use GRUB to
Boot into RAM from VFAT partition on HD
(same as running from CD?)
How to run Puppy from Windows NTFS partition
XP-installer for Puppy 1.0.7 / 1.0.8r1
PupWin98.zip with Puppy 1.0.4
(Run Puppy from within Windows 98 )
(Run Puppy on an emulator running in Windows)
[url=]Running RTL (Real Time Linux) with Puppy as a background task[/url] Discussion
PLD - Command-line Linux
Upgrading (transferring bookmarks, address books, settings etc.):
How to synchronize my bookmarks/favorites?
Building your own custom Puppy (Puppy a la carte):
How to use ISOmaster
Compiling for puppy: leave out the symbols
How to edit menus in JWM/fvwm95
Problem building Unleashed Puppy: too many files in image.gz
How to remaster Puppy live CD
How To: Remastering live CD without pain
Puppy From Scratch
Barry's official webpage for compiling & remastering Puppy
How to remaster Live-CD based on Hard Drive installation
Remastering; how to enlarge image.gz file system
quick remaster how-to
Speedup for building unleashed Puppy
How to add Xorg to Barebones Puppy 2
Configuring your Puppy
save, restore bookmarks in Mozilla & Firefox
Defaults-Wizard v0.1.0
A GUI to change the default apps
Partial documentation of the about:config entries in Mozilla and Firefox
How to set menu font size for Mozilla/Firefox applications
Installing Additional Software and Applications:
Alternative way of installing software
Bladehunter on
Compiling from source code
How to get Make command to work in Puppy 2.01 from HD
Compiling applications for Puppy
Dependency Checker for dotpups and alien programs
The Dotpup and Pupget Wiki page
dpupmaker.sh v1.6
-- compiles source tarballs into Dotpups
How do dotpup packages work?
How to feed Puppy "C" to make a 'fat Puppy.'
How to compile and run
for Puppy
How to do away with Mozilla
HOWTO Install certain major applications outside pup001
How to install Linux games
How to install .tar.gz files for Linux beginners
Install big applications outside the Pup001 file
Installing Gimp, Firefox, OpenOffice
Installing Nero-Linux in Puppy
Step-by-Step how-to on installing apps in Puppy
Macromedia Flash
(In Firefox)
(How to install from tarball)
Other painless tarball installs
Package Remover for Built-In Unleashed Packages
pupgetmaker.sh v1.1
-- compiles source tarballs into pupgets
RealPlayer in Opera
Remove Mozilla, install Firefox and Thunderbird instead
Samba, what's it all about?
(Hint: it's all about sharing.)
unrpm with standard rpm2cpio, for extracting rpm files
what's this usr_dex.sfs and usr_more.sfs thing?
How to add Xorg to Barebones Puppy 2
Specialized Puppies
Nanowrimo Puppy
Puppy 1.0.5a
(Developer Puppy) (See Barry's
entry on the Puppy
page for details)
Backup and Restore
How to
auto-sync pup001 on a schedule
Use Linux to backup hd to, restore hd from, DVD
Use the dd command to copy files, partitions, whole drives
How to
backup files to CD
How to configure Thunderbird to "click on links"
Hardware issues:
How to show more hardware info in Puppy
Using modprobe
Dial-Up modems:
The Linux barrier: dial-up modems
How to tell modem connection speed
Modem commands
Which AT command string to use with external modem?
Softmodems (AKA winmodems)
Howto compile HSF/HCF drivers for Puppy2
HSF/HCF softmodem dotpup packages
How do I compile Conexant softmodem driver?
CD, DVD drives
Burning CDs with gcombust
(Bottom of page)
IDE connections from motherboard affect Burniso2CD
Memorex technical reference for CDs & DVDs
(1.8 MB pdf)
Hard Drives
Use hdparm to improve hard disk throughput
Input devices (Mice and Keyboards):
USB mouse doesn't work in 1.0.3
International keyboard instructions
International keyboard instructions for Puppy201
Daemon for Multimedia Keyboards
Issues with laptop cooling fans
Battery use remaining on laptop
Printing with CUPS
post with step-by-step instructions.)
Printing in Puppy200 or 201 using CUPS
(At last report, CUPS required usr_devx.sfs, a 44+ MB download, whereabouts unkown.)
CUPS Printing
New installation script
How to add ALSA to Puppy 1.0.4 HD install
3D-Dri-Kernelmodules for most Graficscards
Dell latitude d505: screen stuck at 640x400x1
FAQ entry on "screen flicker"
(bottom of page)
Fix resolution / refresh rate on Intel 815
How to install nVidia 3-d graphics drivers
Screen refresh rate
Linux and the Intel 810 chipset
Guide to using webcams in Puppy plus compiled drivers
Useful thread
gui written in puppybasic
How to retain (Netgear WG311T) wifi config on reboot
wireless drivers for 2.02 (6 Aug 06)
WPA encryption state of play for 2.02
checking your chipset
Mounting and unmounting:
Caution when mounting NTFS partition with a pup001 file in it
Adding DLLs to Gxine
so WMA files will play
A fast, cross-platform audio editor
Flash 4 Linux
Good for design Macromedia Flash in Linux (6 Aug 06)
How to disable screensaver while using Gxine
in Puppy 2.12
How to MIDI
Mtpaint 2.02
a small painting/image manipulation program
Mplayer TV
(requires Mplayer to be installed) For ATI TV tuner card
Streamripper 1.61.11
Shoutcast and Icecast recorder
stream directory browser
How to:
Speedup DNS Resolving
With a DNS cache.
How to set up a Linux network
Debian Tutorial
Explanation of internal and external IP addresses
How to change (spoof) the MAC address of your network card
How to get ethernet wizard DHCP to run at Boot-Up
Using ifconfig to turn eth0, ath0 on, off
Dial-Up modems:
Getting dialup modem to work in 1.0.3
June 12th warning re wvdial, on Puppylinux News page
Lucent Winmodem dials, but no internet
Penggy Puppy
- Dialup program
DSL modems:
DSL setup how-to
Synchronous pppoe module
- for ADSL connection
Configuring a Puppy firewall behind a router
Ports: stealth vs closed
Quicktables 2.3 Firewall Script Generator
How to network Puppy and XP
Access files on an XP machine, for beginners
Browse shared files on another computer
Sharing files on a local network with Puppy
Puppy-to-Puppy LAN with Samba
Share files and folders between Puppy <-and-> Windows
Both ways!
Xeznet can crash entire GUI back to a command prompt!
Wireless modems:
Wireless Puppy
Advanced Bash scripting guide
A gnu gcc compiler for Puppy
Editing the pup001 file
(from another distro)
How do I define a syntax highlighting schema to Beaver?
Java 1.5.0_04 Installer
Learn to program + Programming in Puppy
Scripting references
- Bash, Bourne shell reference PDFs
Steve's Bourne / Bash Shell scripting tutorial
The Linux Terminal - a Beginners� Bash Tutorial
How to get Make command to work in Puppy 2.01 from HD
Remote Computing
A build server for Puppy
sshd (remote desktop) server, dotpup package
Testing applications in someone elses computer through VNC
Use remote VNC connection for beta testing?
How to disable screensaver while using Gxine
in Puppy 2.12
Server Puppy
Log into server automatically at bootup
Puppy-based website server is easy - only lacks mail server
Running Apache and hosting a web page, without a hard drive
| Comprehensive and clearly written
Setting up a web server on Puppy; Quisp, Monkey
webenvironment pup (lighttpd,mysql,php)
1 |
How to add ALSA to Puppy 1.0.4
How do I save sound volume settings in xtmix?
Loading sound module so it starts at boot
Tips and tricks
Add a (Textmaker) icon to the desktop
re desktop icons
Browsing Puppy's filesystem with Mozilla
Does Puppy have a screenshot utility?
Encrypt files with bcrypt in Puppy
How to resume downloads with wget
How to use gtkcat to find files
How to link to a website from a Rox desktop icon
Making ROX more fun: changing file associations
Open Gaim in puppylinux chat forum
Setting the Time in Icewm
Add Unicode fonts to Puppy
to download large files in Linux or Windows
Automatically resumes download if interrupted
Puppy 1.0.3 with Xfree86-4.4.0
(Worked on
Toshiba laptop with ct65555 chipset
Configuring the wireless network
(After you install the drivers)
HowTo for pcmcia wireless?
Linksys wireless-b card driver install and setup
Madwifi for Puppy
(driver for wireless cards with Atheros chipset)
Miracle wireless puppy on Toshiba laptop (Sat Pro 6100)
(Detailed description. Very well done.)
What driver do I use for my wireless card?
What is a Wireless adapter that Puppy can autodetect?
Where do I put wireless dhcpcd settings, to load at boot?
Wireless driver packages available for Puppy
Wireless driver packages updated
Wireless driver packages for Puppy2
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Joined: 04 Sep 2005
Posts: 9
Location: Arizona USA
Posted: Sun 04 Sep 2005, 20:16
Post subject: Puppy Linux Discussion Forum Forum Index -> Beginners Hel
Clicking the title
"Puppy Linux Discussion Forum Forum Index"
at the top of this page is the
button !
Clicking sub-titles (after each
) is the
( No thats not a dumb question, sometimes the obvious, is not obvious.)
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Joined: 25 May 2005
Posts: 4843
Location: Manila
Posted: Sun 04 Sep 2005, 21:00
Post subject: John can do
It's something John M can do, changing that phrase to [Home], so it will be seen as "[Home] Forum Index".
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Joined: 24 Feb 2006
Posts: 427
Location: Australia
Posted: Sat 04 Mar 2006, 05:34
Post subject: Thanks - but why so hard to find?
Just a small query - why did it take me so long to find this thread?
Maybe a moderator(s) could add some BIG pointers to it. I've been playing with puppy for about 2 weeks (and love it), spent hours searching this forum and have not found this resource until now.
While I'm thinking of 'searching' maybe somebody could make representations to the makers of this system - the search facility is terrible - would have to be the worst I've ever encountered. I might post this comment somewhere more obvious.
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Joined: 25 May 2005
Posts: 4843
Location: Manila
Posted: Sat 04 Mar 2006, 08:14
Post subject: Hello
Hi, and welcome aboard! This forum software is free but is kept uptodate. Perhaps it's just your first time to use it
Would love to see your suggestions in the "Suggestions" section.
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Official Dog Handler
Joined: 04 May 2005
Posts: 13653
Location: Arizona USA
Posted: Sat 04 Mar 2006, 11:52
Post subject:
What else can I do? The forum software limits me to making the index into a sticky post, and I can't change human nature, which seems not to want to begin at the beginning.
Raffy, I'm afraid I haven't kept the index up to date, but now that John has put a stop to spam things might settle back down and I can get back to it. I've invited other moderators to contribute to it but as far as I know none have.
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Joined: 24 Feb 2006
Posts: 427
Location: Australia
Posted: Sat 04 Mar 2006, 18:28
Post subject:
Thanks for the replies Raffy & Flash. Maybe that was part of the problem, I never really found the 'beginning'. I'm not complaining, the site is an enormous resource and obviously has cost some people (and probably not enough people) a lot of time but I have floundered around in it more than I should have. Maybe I'm getting old and it is certainly not helped by my lack of Linux (or Unix) knowledge.
My aim is to eventually move entirely to Linux - I also have Knoppix and Debian but Puppy seems a great and gentle starting point. I have many packages (including some I've written) that I hope will run under Wine and/or can be ported to Linux - if I live long enough!
Thanks again for the replies.
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Joined: 20 May 2005
Posts: 3606
Location: near Woof (Germany) :-) - 3 PC's: DELL SX280 750 MB Pentium4, Acer emachines 2 GB AMD64. DELL XPS15
Posted: Sat 08 Apr 2006, 18:40
Post subject: use the Wiki please
erased 20110303 as with really to old content. please be comprehensive
I propose you my more
actual page for newbies
but mainly on French:
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Joined: 09 Sep 2006
Posts: 5
Location: France
Posted: Sat 09 Sep 2006, 08:42
Post subject:
Hi all Puppians
I found that "HardDiskInstall (PuppyLinux Wiki page.) Good partitioning instructions." links to a dead page.
http://www.goosee.com/puppy/ says :
> URL changed!
> Please relink to:
> http://www.puppyos.com/
Otherwise I appreciated 5 other (worink) links from "Installing on and booting from HD"
Flash, I really think of your sticky post as a masterpiece about Puppy
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Official Dog Handler
Joined: 04 May 2005
Posts: 13653
Location: Arizona USA
Posted: Sat 09 Sep 2006, 11:03
Post subject:
Well thanks kozaki. I'm afraid I haven't maintained the index very well. It's nice to know that someone still finds it useful.
When you give a good URL for one that is dead, to eliminate confusion, give the full URL to the page and not just the URL to the homepage of the website.
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Joined: 16 Jun 2006
Posts: 143
Location: Gold Coast, Australia
Posted: Tue 10 Oct 2006, 09:31
Post subject: Is info up to date, or at least names the relevant release?
Flash wrote:
Well thanks kozaki. I'm afraid I haven't maintained the index very well. It's nice to know that someone still finds it useful...
Hi Flash.
I have just spent many solid days around all the Puppy websites and forums, hunting all sorts of info. Unfortunately a huge amount of time has been wasted reading all sorts of outdated info. Its really annoying, and in these travels I have seen a couple of other complaints that echo this sentiment too.
So this is just a general observation, and appeal to everyone who puts info up anywhere: PLEASE write a clear concise subject title or short intro at the start to make is clear what release you are talking about.
The problem is right through the open source world. Its a major pain to a lot of people who might contemplate leaving the Windows world, but find the rubbish in wiki, and forum sticky etc material frustrates them and sends them right back to Windows.
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Official Dog Handler
Joined: 04 May 2005
Posts: 13653
Location: Arizona USA
Posted: Tue 10 Oct 2006, 10:23
Post subject:
The problem is not limited to Linux, or Puppy. Hardly a webpage on the internet has a date anywhere in it. At least the forum posts
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Joined: 16 Jun 2006
Posts: 143
Location: Gold Coast, Australia
Posted: Tue 10 Oct 2006, 10:44
Post subject:
Flash wrote:
The problem is not limited to Linux, or Puppy.
Agreed, but it is more a 'feature' of open source projects than commercial ones unfortunately.
Flash wrote:
Hardly a webpage on the internet has a date anywhere in it. At least the forum posts
Generally the websites for commercial/proprietry software are better organised with old stuff more clearly separated from current stuff. Dates are of little use in many cases for a noob. She might read up on a concept dated say 6 months ago. She might realise that was before the current version came out. But does that mean the concept is out of date? .. a bit, a lot, completely? I have found myself in this situation many times lately, so I know how wasteful in time it is sorting it all out. Right now Puppy is in this situation, because there is a lot of Puppy 1 stuff around that is irrelevant to Puppy 2, but its not immediately apparent in the articles.
The Puppy websites need a BIG cleanout, and tidy up. IMO.
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Joined: 21 Oct 2006
Posts: 560
Posted: Fri 24 Nov 2006, 15:43
Post subject: The useful page I have been looking for.
I only wish I had come across this post ages ago, it is so useful.
Many thanks
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Posts: 3
Posted: Tue 03 Apr 2007, 21:27
Post subject:
for more beginners linux help goto
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Ok I'll admit I don't know all about programming so perhaps I am taking the wrong approach but need some assistance.
At work we connect to a server that has the Sales software. There are times the connection goes down and we are stuck doing the receipts by hand. I am trying to emulate the software so we can have it print out the receipts and enter them when the connection is back. This way we can save time and have them still look professional.
The issue I am running into is not much, but it is slightly annoying me since I am trying to make the function of the Offline POS as close as possible as the original. Ok so in the original POS software there are buttons you can click to do a (sale, layaway, etc..) or it also listens for key presses like F1 = Sale, F2 = Layaway and so on. I am unable to emulate this completely and I am trying to figure out if it is possible to do this.
I've made a small example to demonstrate what I mean.
import java.awt.*; import java.awt.event.*; import javax.swing.*; public class Listeners extends JFrame{ public static void main(String[] args){ Listeners frmMain = new Listeners(); } // Declare components JButton btnF1; JButton btnF2; JLabel lblMessage; public Listeners(){ setupComponents(); //// // Setup the parameters for the window //// setTitle("Listeners testing"); setLayout(null); setSize(600, 400); setVisible(true); setLocationRelativeTo(null); setDefaultCloseOperation(EXIT_ON_CLOSE); } public void setupComponents(){ //// // Sales button //// btnF1 = new JButton("F1"); btnF1.setSize(60, 20); btnF1.setLocation(20, 20); btnF1.addKeyListener(new KeyAdapter(){ public void keyPressed(KeyEvent e){ if (e.getKeyCode() == 112) lblMessage.setText("F1 pressed"); } }); add(btnF1); //// // Layaway button //// btnF2 = new JButton("F2"); btnF2.setSize(60, 20); btnF2.setLocation(100, 20); btnF2.addKeyListener(new KeyAdapter(){ public void keyPressed(KeyEvent e){ if (e.getKeyCode() == 113) lblMessage.setText("F2 pressed"); } }); add(btnF2); //// // Labels to dispaly testing information /// lblMessage = new JLabel("No action captured"); lblMessage.setSize(200, 30); lblMessage.setLocation(20, 200); add(lblMessage); //// // Add mouse listener to frame for debugging purposes //// addMouseListener(new MouseAdapter(){ public void mouseClicked(MouseEvent e){ btnF1.setFocusable(btnF1.isFocusable() ? false : true); btnF2.setFocusable(btnF2.isFocusable() ? false : true); lblMessage.setText("Buttons " + (btnF1.isFocusable() ? " are focusable" : " are not focusable")); btnF1.grabFocus(); } }); //// // Add a Keyboard Listener to frame to test if will get all // Input even when other components are in focus. //// addKeyListener(new KeyAdapter(){ public void keyPressed(KeyEvent e){ lblMessage.setText(e.getKeyChar() + " key pressed"); } }); } }
I tried different approaches in hopes of finding a solution but none of my attempts worked out. When attaching the KeyListener to the frame it works up until buttons are added. The issue being is it only captures the key of the component that is in focus. So if btnF1 is in focus it will only capture the F1 keypress. If I swtich focus to btnF2 it won't catch me pressing F1. I am hoping there is a possible way without making it sloppily.
Thanks in advance for any input you may have.

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Unpunctuality could not be cited as
among Madame de Vallorbes' offenses. Yet,
on the morning in question, she was certainly very
late for the twelve o'clock breakfast.
Richard Calmady awaiting her coming beneath
the glistering dome of the airy pavilion, set in the
angle of the terminal wall of the high-lying garden had
time to become conscious of slight irritation.
It was not merely that he was constitutionally impatient
of delay, but that his nerves were tiresomely on edge
just now. Trifles had power to endanger his somewhat
stoic equanimity. But when at length Helen emerged
from the house irritation was forgotten. Moving
through the vivid lights and shadows of the ilex and
cypress grove, her appearance had a charm of unwonted
simplicity. At first sight her graceful person
had the effect of being clothed in a religious habit.
Richard's youthful delight in seeing a woman
walk beautifully remained to him. It received
satisfaction now. Helen advanced without haste,
a certain grandeur in her demeanour, a certain gloom,
even as one who takes serious counsel of himself,
indifferent to external things, at once actor in, and
spectator of, some drama playing itself out in the
theatre of his own soul. And this effect of dignity,
of self-recollection, was curiously heightened by
her dress of a very soft and fine, woolen
material, of spotless white, the lines of it at once
flowing and statuesque. While as head-gear, in
place of some startling construction of contemporary,
Parisian millinery, she wore, after the modest Italian
fashion, a black lace mantilla over her bright hair.
Arrived, she greeted Richard curtly,
and without apology for delay accepted the contents
of the first dish offered to her by the waiting men-servants,
ate as though determinedly and putting a force upon
herself, and that which was unusual with
her before sundown drank wine. And,
watching her, involuntarily Richard's thought
traveled back to a certain luncheon party at Brockhurst,
graced by the presence of genial, puzzle-headed Lord
Fallowfeild and members of his numerous family, when
Helen had swept in, even as now, had been self-absorbed,
even as now. Of the drive to Newlands, all in
the sad November afternoon, following on that luncheon,
he also thought, of communications made by Helen during
that drive, and of the long course of event and action
directly or indirectly consequent on those communications.
He thought of the fog, too, enveloping and almost
choking him, when in the early morning driven by furies,
still virgin in body as in heart, he had ridden out
into a blank and sightless world hoping the chill
of it would allay the fever in his blood, and
of the fog again, in the afternoon, from out which
the branches of the great trees, like famine-stricken
arms in tattered draperies, seemed to pluck evilly
at the carriage, as he walked the smoking horses up
and down the Newlands' drive, waiting for Helen
to rejoin him. And now, somehow, that fog seemed
to come up between him and the well-furnished breakfast-table,
between him and the radiant expanse of the vivacious,
capricious, half-classic, half-modern, mercantile city
outstretched there, teeming, breeding, fermenting,
in the fecundating heat of the noonday sun. The
chill of the fog struck cold into his vitals now,
giving him the strangest physical sensation. Richard
straightened himself in his chair, passed his hands
across his eyes impatiently. Brockhurst, and
all the old life of it, was a subject of which he
forbade himself remembrance. He had divorced himself
from all that, cut himself adrift from it long ago.
By an act of will, he tried to put it out of his mind
now. But the fog remained an actual
clouding of his physical vision, blurring all he looked
upon. It was horribly uncomfortable. He
wished he was alone. Then he might have slipped
down from his chair and, according to his poor capacity
of locomotion, sought relief in movement.
Meanwhile, silently, mechanically,
Helen de Vallorbes continued her breakfast. And
as she so continued, in addition to his singular physical
sensations of blurred vision and clinging chill, he
became aware of a growing embarrassment and constraint
between himself and his companion. So far, his
and her intercourse had been easy and spontaneous,
because superficial. Since that first interview
on the terrace a tacit agreement had existed to avoid
the personal note. Now, for cause unknown, that
intercourse threatened entering upon a new phase.
It was as though the concentration, the tension, which
he observed in her, and of which he was sensible in
himself, must of necessity eventuate in some unbosoming,
some act almost involuntary of
self-revelation. This unaccustomed silence and
restraint seemed to Richard charged with consequences
which, in his present condition of defective volition,
he was powerless to prevent. And this displeased
him, mastery of surrounding influences being very
dear to him.
At last, coffee having been served,
the men-servants withdrew to the house, but the constraint
was not thereby lessened. Helen sat upright,
her chin resting upon the back of her left hand, her
eyes, under their drooping lids, looking out with
a veiled fierceness upon the fair and glittering prospect.
Richard saw her face in profile. The black mantilla
draped her shoulders and bust with a certain austerity
of effect. It was evident that by
something she had been stirred to the extinction
of her habitual vivacity and desire to shine.
And Richard, for all his coolness of head and rather
cynical maturity of outlook, had a restless suspicion
of going forth even as on that foggy morning
at Brockhurst into a blank and sightless
world, full of hazardous possibility, where the safe
way was difficult of discovery and where masked dangers
might lurk. Solicitous to dissipate his discomfort
he spoke a little at random.
"You must forgive me for being
such an abominably bad host," he said courteously.
"I am not quite the thing this morning, somehow.
I had a little go of fever last night. My brain
is like so much pulp."
Helen dropped her hand upon the table
as though putting a term to an importunate train of
"I have always understood the
villa to be remarkably free from malaria," she
remarked abstractedly.
"So it is. I quite believe
that. The servants certainly keep well enough.
But so, unfortunately, is not the port."
Helen turned her head. A vertical
line was observable between her arched eyebrows.
"The port?" she repeated.
Richard swallowed his black coffee.
Perhaps it might steady him and clear his head.
The numbness of his faculties and senses alike exasperated
him, filling him with a persuasion he would say precisely
those things wisdom would counsel to leave unsaid.
"Yes you know I generally
go down and sleep on board the yacht."
There was a momentary pause.
Madame de Vallorbes' lips parted in a soundless
exclamation. Then she pushed back the modest folds
of the mantilla, leaving her neck free. The action
of her hands was very graceful as she did this, and
she looked fixedly at Richard Calmady.
"I did not know that,"
she said slowly. Then added, as though reasoning
out her own thought: "And Naples harbour
is admittedly one of the most pestilential holes on
the face of the earth. Are you not tempting providence
in the matter of disease, Richard? Are you not
rather wantonly indiscreet?"
"On the contrary," he
answered, and something of mockery touched his expression,
"I see it quite otherwise. I have been congratulating
myself on the praiseworthy abundance of my discretion."
And the words were no sooner out of
his mouth than Richard cursed himself for a bungler,
and a slightly vulgar one at that. But upon his
hearer those same words worked a remarkable change.
Her gloom, her abstraction, departed, leaving only
a pretty pensiveness. She smiled with chastened
sweetness upon Richard Calmady a smile nicely
attuned to the semi-religious simplicity of her dress.
"Ah! perhaps we are both a trifle
out of sorts this morning!" she said. "I,
too, have had my little turn of sickness sickness
of heart. And that seems unfair, since I rose
in the best disposition of spirit. Quite early
I went to confession."
"Confession?" Richard
repeated. "I did not know your submission
to the Church carried you to such practical lengths."
"Evidently we are each fated
to make small discoveries regarding the habits of
the other, to-day," she rejoined. "Possibly
confession is to me just what those nights spent on
board the yacht, lying in that malodorous harbour,
are to you!"
Helen's smile broadened to a
dainty naughtiness, infinitely provoking. But
pensiveness speedily supervened. She folded her
hands upon the edge of the table and looked down at
them meditatively.
"I relieved my conscience.
Not that there was much to relieve it of, thank heaven!
We have lived austerely enough most of us, this winter
in France. Only it becomes a matter of moral,
personal cleanliness, after a time, all that exaggerated,
but very comfortable. Just as one takes one's
bath twice daily, not that it is necessary but that
it is a luxury of physical purity and self-respect,
so one comes to go to confession. That is a luxury
of moral purification. It is as a bath to the
soul, ministering to the perfection of its cleanliness
and health."
She looked up at Richard smiling,
that same dainty naughtiness very present.
"You observe I am eminently
candid. I tell you exactly how my religion affects
me. I can only reach high-thinking through acts
which are external and concrete. In short, I
am a born sacramentalist."
And Richard listened, interested and
entertained. Yet, since that strange blurring
of fog still confused his vision and his judgment,
vaguely suspicious that he missed the main intent of
her speech. Suspicious as one who, listening
to the clever patter of a conjurer, detects in it
the effort to distract attention from some difficult
feat of legerdemain, until that feat has passed from
attempt merely into accomplished fact.
"And, indirectly, that is where
my heart-sickness comes in," she continued,
with a return to something of her former abstraction
and gloom. "I was coming away, coming back
here and I was very happy. It is not
often one can say that. And then pouf –like
that," she brought her hands smartly together,
"the charming bubble burst! For, upon the
very church steps, I met a man whom I have every cause
to hate."
As she spoke, the fog seemed to draw
away, burnt up by the great, flaming sun-god there.
Richard's brain grew clear clearer,
indeed, than in perfect health and his
still face grew more still than was, even to it, quite
"Well?" he asked, almost harshly.
And Helen, whose faith in her own
diplomacy had momentarily suffered eclipse, rejoiced.
For the tone of his voice betrayed not disgust, but
anxiety. It stirred her as a foretaste of victory.
And victory had become a maddening necessity to her.
Destournelle had forced her hand. His natural
infirmity of purpose relieved her of the fear he could
work her any great mischief. Yet his ingenuity,
inspired by wounded vanity, might prove beyond her
calculations. It is not always safe to forecast
the future by experience of the past in relation to
such a being as Destournelle! Therefore it became
of supreme importance, before that gentleman had time
further to obtrude himself, to bind Richard Calmady
by some speech, some act, from which there was no going
back. And more than just that. The sight
of her ex-lover, though she now loathed him possibly
just because she so loathed him provoked
passion in her. It was as though only in a new
intrigue could she rid herself of the remembrance
of the old intrigue which was now so detestable to
her. She craved to do him that deepest, most
ultimate, despite. And passion cried out in her.
The sight of him, though she loathed him, had made
her utterly weary of chastity. All of which emotions but
held as hounds in a leash, ready to be slipped when
the psychological moment arrived, and by no means
to be slipped until the arrival of it dictated
the tenor of her next speech.
"Well," she answered,
with an air of half-angry sincerity altogether convincing,
"I really don't know that I am particularly
proud of the episode. I know I was careless,
that I laid myself open to the invidious comment,
which is usually the reward of all disinterested action.
One learns to accept it as a matter of course.
And you see Paul Destournelle "
"Oh, Destournelle!" Richard exclaimed.
"You have read him?"
"Every one has read him."
"And what do you think of him?"
"That his technique is as amazingly
clever as his thought is amazingly rotten."
"I know I know,"
she said eagerly. "And that is just what
induced me to do all I could for him. If one
could cut the canker away, give him backbone and decency,
while retaining that wonderful technique, one would
have a second and a greater Theophile Gautier."
Richard was looking full at her.
His face had more colour, more animation, than usual.
"If yes if,"
he returned. "But that same if bulks
mighty big to my mind."
"I know," she repeated.
"Yet it seemed to me worth the attempt.
And then, you understand, who better? that
if one's own affairs are not conspicuously happy,
one has all the more longing the affairs of others
should be crowned with success. And this winter
specially, among the sordid miseries, disgraces, deprivations,
of the siege, one was liable to take refuge in an
over-exalted altruism. It was difficult in so
mad a world not to indulge in personal eccentricity to
the neglect of due worship of the great goddess Conventionality.
With death in visible form at every street corner,
one's sense of humour, let alone one's
higher faculties, rebelled against the futility of
such worship. So many detestable sights and sounds
were perpetually presented to one not to
mention broth of abominable things daily for dinner that
one turned, with thanksgiving, to beautiful form in
art, to perfectly felicitous words and phrases.
The meaning of them mattered but little just then.
They freed one from the tyranny of more or less disgusting
fact. They satisfied eye and ear. One asked
nothing more just then luckily, you will
say, since the animal Destournelle has very surely
nothing more to give."
In speaking, Helen pushed her chair
back, turning it sideways to the table. Her speech
was alive with varied and telling inflections.
Her smallest gesture had in it something descriptive
and eloquent.
"And so I fell to encouraging
the animal," she continued, almost plaintively,
yet with a note of veiled laughter in her voice.
"Reversing the order of Circe Naples
inclines one to classic illustration, sometimes a
little hackneyed by the way, speaking of
Naples, look at the glory of it all just now, Richard! I
tried to turn, not men to swine, but swine to men.
And I failed, of course. The gods know best.
They never attempt metamorphosis on the ascending
scale! I let Destournelle come to see me frequently.
The world advised itself to talk. But, being
rather bitterly secure of myself, I disregarded that.
If one is aware that one's heart was finally
and long ago disposed of, one ceases to think seriously
of that side of things. You must know all that
well enough witness the sea-born furnishings
of my bedroom up-stairs!"
For half a minute she paused. Richard made no
"Hard words break no bones,"
she added lightly. "And so, to show how
much I despised all such censorious cackle, I allowed
Destournelle to travel south with me when I left Paris."
"You pushed neglect of the worship
of conventionality rather far," Richard said.
Helen rose to her feet. Excitement
gained on her, as always during one of her delightful
improvisations, her talented viva voce improvements
on dry-as-dust fact. She laughed softly, biting
her lip. More than one hound had been slipped
by now. They made good running. She stood
by Richard Calmady, looking down at him, covering
him, so to speak, with her eyes. The black mantilla
no longer veiled her bright head. It had fallen
to the ground, and lay a dark blot upon the mellow
fairness of the tesselated pavement. White-robed,
statuesque yet not with the severe grace
of marble, but with that softer, more humanly seductive
grace of some figure of cunningly tinted ivory she
appeared, just then, to gather up in herself all the
poetry, the intense and vivid light, the victorious
vitality, of the clear, burning, southern noon.
"Ah, well, conventionality proved
perfectly competent to avenge herself!" she
exclaimed. "The animal Destournelle took
the average, the banal view, as might have been anticipated.
He had the insane presumption to suppose it was himself,
not his art, in which I was interested. I explained
his error, and departed. I recovered my equanimity.
That took time. I felt soiled, degraded.
And then to-day I meet him again, unashamed, actually
claiming recognition. I repeated my explanation
with uncompromising lucidity "
Richard moved restlessly in his chair,
looking up almost sharply at her.
"Waste of breath," he
said. "No explanation is lucid if the hearer
is unwilling to accept it."
And then the two cousins, as though
they had reached unexpectedly some parting of the
ways, calling for instant decision in respect of the
future direction of their journey, gazed upon one another
strangely each half defiant of the other,
each diligent to hide his own and read the other's
thought, each sensible of a crisis, each at once hurried
and arrested by suspicion of impending catastrophe,
unless this way be chosen that declined though
it seemed, in good truth, not in their keeping, but
in that of blind chance only that both selection and
rejection actually resided. And, in this strait,
neither habit of society, fine sword-play of diplomacy
and tact, availed to help them. For suddenly
they had outpaced all that, and brought up amongst
ancient and secular springs of action and emotion
before which civilisation is powerless and the ready
tongue of fashion dumb.
But even while he so gazed, in fateful
suspense and indecision, the fog came up again, chilling
Richard Calmady's blood, oppressing his brain
as with an uprising of foul miasma, blurring his vision,
so that Helen's fair, downward-gazing face was
distorted, rendered illusive and vague. And,
along with this, distressing restlessness took him,
compelling him to seek relief in change of posture
and of place. He could not stop to reckon with
how that which he proposed to do might strike an onlooker.
His immediate sensations filled his whole horizon.
Silently he slipped down from his chair, stood a moment,
supporting himself with one hand on the edge of the
table, and then moved forward to that side of the
pavilion which gave upon the garden. Here the
sunshine was hot upon the pavement, and upon the outer
half of each pale, slender column. Richard leant
his shoulder against one of these, grateful for the
genial heat.
Since her first and somewhat inauspicious
meeting with him in childhood, Helen had never, close
at hand, seen Richard Calmady walk thus far.
She stared, fascinated by that cruel spectacle.
For the instant transformation of the apparently tall,
and conspicuously well-favoured, courtly gentleman,
just now sitting at table with her, into the shuffling,
long-armed, dwarfed and crippled creature was, at
first utterly incredible, then portentous, then, by
virtue of its very monstrosity, absorbing and, to
her, adorable, whetting appetite as veritable famine
might. Chastity became to her more than ever absurd,
a culpable waste of her own loveliness, of sensation,
of emotion, a sin against those vernal influences
working in this generous nature surrounding her and
working in her own blood. All the primitive instinct
of her womanhood called aloud in her that she must
wed must wed. And the strident voice
of the great, painted city coming up to her, urgent,
incessant, carried the same message, as did the radiant
sea, whose white lips kissed the indented coast-line
as though pale and hungry with love. While the
man before her, by his very abnormality and a certain
secretness inevitable in that, heightened her passion.
He was to her of all living men most desirable, so
that she must win him and hold him, must see and know.
In a few steps, light as those of
the little, rose-crowned dancer of long ago, she followed
him across the shining floor. There was a point
of north in the wind, adding exhilaration to the firm
sunshine as ice to rare wine. The scent of narcissus,
magnolia, and lemon blossom was everywhere. The
cypresses yielded an aromatic, myrrh-like sweetness.
The uprising waters of the fountain, set in the central
alley, swerved southward, falling in a jeweled rain.
Helen, in her spotless raiment, came close and Richard
Calmady turned to her. But his eyes no longer
questioned hers. They were as windows opening
back on to empty space, seeing all, yet telling nothing.
His face had become still again and inscrutable, lightened
only by that flickering, mocking smile. It seemed
as though the psychological moment were passed and
social sense, ordinary fashions of civilised intercourse,
had not only come back but come to stay.
"I think we will omit Destournelle
from our talk in future," he said. "As
a subject of conversation I find he disagrees with
me, notwithstanding his felicity of style and his
admirable technique. I will give orders which,
I hope, may help to protect you from annoyance in
future. In this delightful land, by wise exercise
of just a little bribery and corruption, it is still
possible to make the unwelcome alien prefer to seek
health and entertainment elsewhere. Now, will
you like to go back to the house?"
The approach to the pavilion from
the lower level of the garden was by a carefully graded
slope of Roman brick, set edgewise. At regular
intervals of about eighteen inches this was crossed on
the principle of a gang-plank by raised
marble treads. Without waiting for his cousin's
reply, Richard started slowly down the slope.
At the best of times this descent for him demanded
caution. Now his vision was again so queerly
blurred that he miscalculated the distance between
the two lowest treads, slipped and stumbled, lunging
forward. Quick as a cat, Madame de Vallorbes
was behind him, her right hand grasping his right
elbow, her left hand under his left armpit.
"Ah! Dickie, Dickie, don't
fall!" she cried, a sudden terror in her voice.
Her muscles hardened like steel.
It needed all her strength to support him, for he
was heavy, his body inert as that of one fainting.
For a moment his head rested against her bosom; and
her breath came short, sighing against his neck and
By sheer force of will Richard recovered
his footing, disengaging himself from her support,
shuffling aside from her.
"A thousand thanks, Helen," he said.
Then he looked full at her, and she untender
though she was perceived that the perspective
of space on which, as windows might, his eyes seemed
to open back, was not empty. It was peopled, crowded even
as those steep, teeming byways of Naples by
undying, unforgetable misery, humiliation, revolt.
"Yes, it is rather unpardonable
to be as I am isn't it?"
he said. Adding hastily, yet with a certain courteous
dignity: "I am ashamed to trouble
you, to ask you of all people to
run messages for me but would you go on
to the house "
"Dickie, why may not I help you?" she
"Ah!" he said, "the
answer to that lies away back in the beginning of
things. Even unlucky devils, such as myself, are
not without a certain respect for that which is fitting,
for seemliness and etiquette. Send one of my
men please. I shall be very grateful to you thanks."
And Helen de Vallorbes, her passion
baulked and therefore more than ever at white heat,
swept up the paved alley, amid the sweet scents of
the garden, beneath the jeweled rain of the fountain,
that point of north in the wind dallying with her
as in laughing challenge, making her the more mad
to have her way with Richard Calmady, yet knowing that
of the two he and she he was
the stronger as yet.


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Place count in area: 130,
OSI/LPS Maps: 28B, 49, 50, 55, 56, 61, 62, AWW
Highest place:
Lugnaquilla, 925m
Maximum height for area: 925 metres,
Maximum prominence for area: 905 metres,
Places in area Dublin/Wicklow:
Ballinacorbeg 336m
Ballinastraw 284m
Ballycurry 301m
Ballyguile Hill 188m
Ballyhook Hill 288m
Bray Head Hill 240m
Carrickgollogan 276m
Carrigeen Hill 298m
Carrigoona Commons East 242m
Cloghnagaune 385m
Corballis Hill 258m
Cupidstown Hill 378.6m
Downs Hill 372m
Dunranhill 342m
Eagle Hill 296m
Killeagh 249m
Killiney Hill 153.5m
Kilmichael Hill 267m
Kilnamanagh Hill 217m
Knockannavea 400.8m
Knockree 342m
Mount Kennedy 365.9m
Slieveroe 332m
Westaston Hill 270m
Dublin Mountains:
Corrig Mountain 617.1m
Glendoo Mountain 586m
Kippure 757m
Knocknagun 555m
Mountpelier Hill 383m
Prince William's Seat 555m
Saggart Hill 396.9m
Seahan 647.3m
Seefin 620.6m
Seefingan 722.9m
Tibradden Mountain 467m
Two Rock Mountain 536m
Wicklow Mountains:
Annagh Hill 454m
Ballinacor Mountain 531m
Ballinafunshoge 480m
Ballineddan Mountain 652m
Ballycumber Hill 431m
Ballycurragh Hill 536m
Ballyteige 447m
Baltinglass Hill 382m
Barranisky 280m
Benleagh 689m
Black Hill 602.2m
Brockagh Mountain 557m
Brockagh Mountain NW Top 548m
Brockagh Mountain SE Top 470m
Camaderry Mountain 698.6m
Camaderry South East Top 677.3m
Camenabologue 758m
Camenabologue SE Top 663m
Carrick Mountain 381m
Carrickashane Mountain 508m
Carrig Mountain 571m
Carrigleitrim 408m
Carriglineen Mountain 455m
Carrignagunneen 561m
Carrigshouk 572.5m
Carrigvore 682m
Church Mountain 544m
Cloghernagh 800m
Collon Hill 238m
Conavalla 734m
Corriebracks 531m
Corrigasleggaun 794m
Croaghanmoira 664m
Croaghanmoira North Top 575m
Croghan Kinsella 606m
Croghan Kinsella East Top 562.1m
Cullentragh Mountain 510m
Cushbawn 400m
Derrybawn Mountain 474m
Djouce 725.5m
Duff Hill 720m
Fair Mountain 571.2m
Fananierin 426m
Gravale 718m
Great Sugar Loaf 501m
Kanturk 523m
Keadeen Mountain 653m
Kirikee Mountain 474m
Knocknacloghoge 534m
Lakeen 357m
Little Sugar Loaf 342m
Lobawn 636m
Lugduff 652m
Lugduff SE Top 637m
Luggala 595m
Lugnagun 446.2m
Lugnaquilla 925m
Maulin 570m
Moanbane 703m
Moneyteige North 427m
Mullacor 657m
Mullaghcleevaun 849m
Mullaghcleevaun East Top 795m
Muskeagh Hill 397m
Preban Hill 389m
Robber's Pass Hill 508.9m
Scarr 641m
Scarr North-West Top 561m
Seskin 344m
Silsean 698m
Sleamaine 430m
Slieve Maan 547.8m
Slieve Maan North Top 546.1m
Slievecorragh 418m
Slievefoore 414m
Slievemaan 759m
Sorrel Hill 599.5m
Spinans Hill 409m
Spinans Hill SE Top 400m
Stoney Top 714m
Stookeen 420m
Sugarloaf 552m
Table Mountain 701.7m
Table Mountain West Top 563m
Tinoran Hill 312m
Tomaneena 682.4m
Tonduff 642m
Tonduff East Top 593m
Tonelagee 817m
Tonelagee NE Top 668m
Tonlagee South-East Top 546m
Trooperstown Hill 430m
War Hill 684.8m
White Hill 631.1m
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Arderin Beg, Vandeleur-Lynam
, Aphyric granodiorite
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Longitude: -6.454146, Latitude: 52.988643
, Easting: 303866, Northing: 194180
Prominence: 24m
, Isolation: 1.2km
, GPS IDs, 6 char: Bnlgh, 10 char: Benleagh
Bedrock type: Aphyric granodiorite, (Percys Table Granodiorite)
Benleagh is the 130th highest place in Ireland.
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Picture from group : Fraughan Rock Glen from Benleagh
Fraughan Rock Glen from Benleagh
Tough climb, so-so top, amazing views
Short Summary created by Colin Murphy 16 Apr 2013
Starting at the large carpark at
in Glenmalure, cross the nearby footbridge. Once across the ford, follow the good Coillte track as far as
, where the track splits. Take a left into Fraughan Rock Glen and continue as a far as T
054 939
, level with the edge of the tree plantation. Head directly up along the line of these trees. It is steep terrain and the going underfoot can be treacherous, as there are multiple boulders, hidden bog holes, rotting tree stumps etc, but it is passable with care. You will eventually emerge at
. The remainder is a simple, relatively gentle climb to the SW of about 500m, which will take you to the top, which is unremarkable, but marked by a small cairn. However, the views on this last section of the walk overlooking Fraughan Rock Glen are as good as any you will see in Ireland.
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What have these cliffs not seen!
20 Apr 2010
A blue sky over Benleagh and not a contrail in sight, thanks to the vagaries of Icelandic ash! And that wasn't the only thing I had to wonder at, as I walked along the arching cliff-top the other day.
For one thing, a group of climbers was slowly working its way up one of the crumbling buttresses of the cliff face (the one you can see in the photo). Do those chaps know something about the law of gravity that the rest of us known nothing of? The granite on the cliff face, shattered by the passage of ice into giant, cantilevered blocks, has all the appearance of a tilted, top-heavy stack of dominos that only needs a careless nudge to come tumbling down. I'm sure a mathematician could produce a very sobering calculation of the various probabilities.
Looking around, I almost found it more reassuring to turn my thoughts to the bloody battle that raged in the two valleys around Benleagh, on the 25 August 1580. When Lord Grey made his ill-fated attempt to crush the Gaelic power of Feagh McHugh O'Byrne by leading his army into Glenmalure, it is surmised that he left his baggage train in the Glen of Imaal and approached either from the west, over Table Mountain and Camenabologue, or from the southwest, between Cannow Mountain and Benleagh, dropping down into the Fraughan Rock Glen. One of the English chroniclers who lived to fight another day describes the terrain as follows: "When we entered the foresaid Glen, we were forced to slide some tymes three or four fadoms er we colde staie our feete; it was in depth where we entered … full of stones, rocks, bogs and wood, in the bottom thereof a ryver full of lose stones, wch we were dryven to crosse dyverse tymes." Even in its present state of deforestation, one can still imagine what the invading troops had to contend with in these valleys before ever the wily Feagh fell upon them. Anyone sitting that August day on Benleagh would have had a grandstand view of some of the proceedings.
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padodes on Benleagh, 2007
5 Oct 2007
Benleagh can also be approached from the south, and even without having to do any rock climbing it is one of the more challenging ways of getting to the top. The photo, which I took three weeks ago while descending from Art's Lough, helps to visualise the route. Following the forest track from Baravore into Fraughan Rock Glen, when you draw level with the last stand of now fast disappearing pines on the right hand side before the cliffs begin to tower above (the pines visible mid way up the slope on the right of photo), leave the track (roughly, T
054 939
) and head straight for the left hand side of the pines (T
052 940
) and from there climb straight up the steepening slope. When I climbed it myself earlier this year, I emerged through a little gully onto the ridge at T
051 943
. Looking at the picture, this route may appear quite straightforward, but it gives little idea of the difficulties of the terrain. The slope quickly becomes a jumble of rocks and boulders, often with a thick covering of heather, fern, furze and fraughans. It sometimes requires a hands-on effort to keep balance and avoid hidden holes between the rocks, but scrambling would be too fine a word for it. Once on the ridge, it is easy to follow it westwards to its hightest point before turning slightly NW to the nondescript summit of Benleagh itself. In fine weather, the walk along the ridge offers wonderful views of the hanging valleys at the head of the glen or of Art's Lough to the south, like a blue eye winking across from under the dark brow of Cloghernagh. It's easy to wax lyrical in places like this.
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Picture from Rob_Lee : It was so nice i had to paint it.
It was so nice i had to paint it.
A nice ascent
2 Jun 2014
There's nothing too interesting about Benleagh top, it's fairly flat and boggy, though it is exciting to hear the rumble of explosions coming over the hill from Glen of Imaal artillery range.
To make up for the unimpressive summit Benleagh has a lovely ascent from Fraughan Rock Glen. Before you start the steep climb up the side of the valley you walk along a quiet and peaceful track with lovely views looking up from between the high cliffs to the foot of Lugnaquilla.
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GWPR on Benleagh, 2003
3 Dec 2003
Winter now and the shorter day mean an earlier start to get 5/6 hours in the mountains.
I start at Baravore Youth Hostel at the top of Glenmalure and follow the track around to the left
to reveal the great opening of the Fraughan Rock Glen. On my right hand side are the imposing cliffs of Benleagh. and on the left the brooding shoulder of Cloghernagh ,in shadow in the early morning light. Climbing up by the left side of the waterfall, winter rains have formed cascades over great polished slabs of granite. To the sounds of gurgling waters I arrive at the top of the hanging valley leading to the opening of the Fraughan Rock Glen. I head for a gully directly ahead and start a short scramble to arrive on a bony ridge which connects to that great East-West Spur between Lug and Cloghernagh.
Lug is ahead now and above the South Prison the ground is white with frost.
Arriving at the great cairn I take a breather and some photos of course! Hikers are arriving from all
directions to meet at this great gathering point. Others are heading for Table Mt and the Three Lakes
but I head east now for Cloghernagh and plan to descend by Art's Lough.
On my left Kelly's Lough is dark and mysterious under Corrigasleggaun.
Arriving at the cairn on Cloghernagh I take great care to get the next part right as the descent to Art's Lough is a bit tricky. Joss Lynam in his excellent book ' Walk Guide – East of Ireland' recommends – 'To avoid cliffs on the direct route (from the cairn on Cloghernagh) walk about north/northeast for approx. 500m., then swing north and finally northwest to descend on a grassy ramp to the lake.' Having followed these directions faithfully what a sight I beheld. Here in the late winter sunlight , Art'sLough like a liquid mirror held a perfect relection of the Cliffs of Benleagh! Could I capture on camera this magnificent mountain view? I took as many photos as the late evening light allowed with the thought that I still needed light for the tough descent from Art's Lough to the track back to Baravore. Reluctantly I descend with an everlasting image in my mind, if not on film!
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Picture from darrenf : Arts Lough taken from east of Benleagh
Arts Lough taken from east of Benleagh
darrenf on Benleagh, 2010
15 Mar 2010
With the short spell of good weather we appear to be having it would be a shame not to get out over the weekend. So I headed off down to Glenmalur on Saturday 13th March. Yup I had it all planned out...just me, Lug, the snow capped peaks and if I was lucky maybe even some deer. Sure who else would be out what the rugby on.....as I struggled to find a suitable spot to lay up the car in Baravore carpark
I cursed my niavity. Well I was here now and would have to make the most of the day. Im not the biggest fan of heavy populated areas and would tend to steer clear of the general direction the hoards seem to be moving toward. So after a quick review of the map it was decided, Benleagh & Camenabologue would be on the menu.
Crossed the Avonbeg River via the footbridge and contuined along the gravel track which leads up to the an oige youth hostel and shortly afterwards took the track which bears left (contuining on the original track will take you further into the Glenmalur valley). Followed this forest track right around into Fraughan Glen where the views really open out in front of you. The entire track is not clearly identified on Sheet 56 (at least my dated one!!) but it will take you deep into the glen and only really peters out at the back wall of the glen - at this point another faint track can be picked up which stays to the right hand side of the benleagh river and continues up and over Fraughan Glen. Spectacular views back down the glen and across to Lugduff can be enjoyed. Once over the glen I was glad I decided to give Lug a miss given the amount of people coming to and fro. Sticking next to the benleagh river will provide a good handrail and before long the river noticebly forks right and I forked with it! The going along this strecth of the walk was boggy and gaiters are advisable! The river eventually peters out but navigation is simple enough. It did however take me some time to locate the exact summit of Benleagh but after much circling around I stumbled upon the cairn which is perched aloft a peat hag.
I couldn't resist a short detour before I contuined on to Camenabologue and I headed east of Benleagh to really get a good look over the cliffs surrounding Fraughan Glen. The picture below was taken from one of the rocky outcrops over the glen on the Benleagh side, and clearly shows Arts Lough. From here I retraced my steps back to Benleagh and continued on to Camenabologue. Refer to same for rest of route.
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Man, 79, disarms intruder with karate chop
A 79-year-old League City resident turned the tables on a would-be burglar, incapacitating him with a karate chop and then holding him until police arrived, investigators said.
Ervin Brittnacher was awakened by noises outside his home in the 3000 block of McFarland Road just before 6 a.m. Monday and walked over to investigate, said Lt. Bruce Whitten of the League City Police Department.
Brittnacher saw a man toting a rifle, a .223-caliber Ruger Mini-14, police said. The homeowner sprang into action, hitting him in the throat with the side of his hand, and then taking the rifle, Whitten said.
Brittnacher ordered the man to sit down and waited for police to arrive.
"That's a pretty stout old man," Whitten said. "I would not classify him as a feeble person from how he was so quickly able to disable this guy."
Charles Brian Smith, 38, of Alvin, has been charged with attempted burglary of a residence with intent to commit assault, authorities said. He was being held Tuesday at the Galveston County Jail under a $40,000 bail.
Police found Smith in the front yard yelling incoherently, officials said. Investigators found damage to the front porch of Brittnacher's home and discovered bullet holes in his truck, Whitten said. Investigators suspect that Smith was high on bath salts or other mind-altering substance.
While it's usually best for residents to call police when a dangerous situation arises, Whitten said that homeowners have the right to protect their property.
"My recommendation is that you do what you need to do to protect yourself," he said. "That's up to the individual. When you're confronted with something like this you have to do what you need to do to protect yourself."


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Becoming more discerning about your coffee doesn't necessarily mean that your morning routine has to become any longer. My portable French press, a four-minute affair, would seem treacherously drawn-out next to other brewing toys now on the market, but none of that would make any difference if the beans going in the pot were second-rate. So in the hopes of making freshly ground beans a part of my routine, I've introduced Breville's Smart Grinder* ($199.99 at brevilleusa.com) into my life.
In comparison to other burr grinders, the Smart Grinder's biggest selling point is its highly customizable interface. Rotate the wheel to set the machine to any of 25 settings from course to fine grinds. For those of us who aren't coffee whizzes, the display marks off the ideal range for various brewing types from press to percolator to espresso, letting you customize from an informed perspective. With the push of a button, you choose how much coffee you're making (measured in cups for press/percolator and in shots for espresso, cleverly), and how strong you like it on a scale of 1 to 10. It sets the limit at 12 cups or 8 shots, which is probably for everyone's own good.
With those two-second settings, the machine calibrates to your preferences and dispenses the perfect amount of coffee. It comes with two portafilter cradles (a smaller one for 50-54mm and a larger one for 58mm) that slide in and out, making it compatible with basically all espresso machines. For press/portafilter grinds, there's a handy container that magnetically aligns itself with the machine and comes with an airtight seal for later storage. Granted, you shouldn't need to store grounds when your machine is automatically dispensing the right quantity.
I like that the machine shuts off automatically when not in use, but also stores your settings. It means that if your coffee routine is constant, all you need to do is push the "start" button in the morning, and the rest is all set. This is convenience—and consistency—that make me feel spoiled, and that's definitely a nice thing to rely on each morning.
* This product was solicited as a sample on behalf of Breville. Though they supplied the gadget, this review is based only on first-hand experience and unbiased opinion.
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The ESPN Article is for Insiders, but it also links to this Sun Sentinel articleHowever, with the Dolphins' offseason in full-swing, there now appears to be a chance that he'll be brought back. According to the South Florida Sun Sentinel, Dolphins GM Jeff Ireland has had numerous conversations with Long this offseason as the Michigan product rehabilitates his triceps injury at the team facilities. Ireland would not divulge any specifics regarding the negotiations on a new deal or his willingness to use the franchise tag on Long.
"It's one of those avenues we have there available to us," he said of the franchise tag. "To negotiate in the media right now, I'm not going to give you my plans or what I plan to do from a franchise standpoint but it's certainly available to us and we'll use those avenues to make those decisions moving forward ... we've got some tough decisions to make here moving forward."