walk to Kylebrack to fish for trout. Kylebrack, a neighbour told me, is an anglicisation of its original Irish name, Choill Bhreac, which means ‘the trout forest’. There’s no longer any real forest left in Kylebrack, and from what I can tell there are no longer any trout in this river either. I try to imagine what this place looked and felt like when it was first named by its earliest inhabitants, as I put away my rod and walk home.
