In April, the night after attending another of the Lough Carra Catchment Association Meetings, we drove around Carnacon, taking photos of things we’ve noticed during our different visits to this area by the lake: an old telephone box, grazing sheep by the parish, and the community centre where LCCA meetings are often held. These landscapes, while not of the Carra itself, are important textures to the area, and ones we take note of as we try to build broader understandings of how the future, present and the past manifest in these rural Irish landscapes.