The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #77631 Message #1389028
Posted By: manitas_at_work
26-Jan-05 - 11:13 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Cliffs of Dooneen. WHERE?
Subject: RE: Origins: Cliffs of dooneen. WHERE?
We didn't get out of the car at Dooneen as it was pissing down and all we could see from the road was dunes and not cliffs. I understand the dunes are high enough to qualify as cliffs by the river. It's worth remembering that sand dunes have a tendency to be eroded far faster than chalk or granite and the cliffs may have had a better view across the Sahnnon when the song was written. And no, it doesn't seem to have been written by an aviator as we speculated.