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  • The Phillimore legacy at Tra na Rossan  Co Donegal

    The Phillimore legacy at Tra na Rossan Co Donegal

    This beautiful An Oige Hostel in a remote part of Co Donegal was designed by the famous architect Edwin Lutyens ...
  • Images of Mevagh

    Images of Mevagh

  • 'The Limerick Piper' Pádraig O'Briain (Born in Labasheeda, Co. Clare, 1773)

    'The Limerick Piper' Pádraig O'Briain (Born in Labasheeda, Co. Clare, 1773)

    Padraig O’Briain (c. 1773-1855) A piper and musician, Padraig O’Briain was born in Labasheeda, County Clare around 1773. His parents were well-off ...
  • Ballindoon Priory (or Abbey)

    Ballindoon Priory (or Abbey)

    Ballindoon Abbey or Priory rests on the quiet shores of Lough Arrow, a lake in South Sligo. This Dominican priory ...
  • Seatown Castle

    Seatown Castle

    Around the corner of my house is the 13th century Seatown Castle, which is actually the tower of a Franciscan ...
  • Corduff Ringfort

    Corduff Ringfort

    Marked as fort on the 1837 Ordnance survey map it is believed to be a platform ringfort with a diameter ...
  • Saint Laurence's Gate, Drogheda

    Saint Laurence's Gate, Drogheda

    Saint Laurence’s Gate, part of the walled fortifications of the medieval town of Drogheda, Co. Louth.
  • Blackrock Railway Station

    Blackrock Railway Station

    Blackrock Railway Station, built c.1834.
  • Lacca Woods

    Lacca Woods

    Hear about the natural heritage in Lacca Woods Check out this brilliant podcast about the heritage of Lacca Woods by Hugo ...
  • Baltimore Beacon

    Baltimore Beacon

    The Beacon stands looking out to the Atlantic and back at the village of Baltimore in West Cork. The Beacon marks ...
  • St. Catherine's Holy Well

    St. Catherine's Holy Well

    St. Catherine’s Well is situated in St. Catherine’s Regional Park exactly on the county border of Kildare and Dublin. Folklore has ...
  • Graves of the Leinstermen

    Graves of the Leinstermen

    These stones abound with folklore involving Brian Boru and a quarrel that resulted in the death of the King of ...
  • Victorian Cartwheel Sweller

    Victorian Cartwheel Sweller

    To know fully even one field or one land is a lifetime’s experience. In the world of poetic experience it ...
  • Heritage in The Curragh, Co. Kildare

    Heritage in The Curragh, Co. Kildare

    Images from around The Curragh military camp, an area of military history from the mid-1800s., from British rule to Irish ...
  • Haroldstown Dolmen

    Haroldstown Dolmen

    The River Dereen rises in a bog at Knockanana and is a specially conserved channel because of the salmon, trout ...
  • Early Christian Oratory (Private Chapel) Rosscahill. Co. Galway

    Early Christian Oratory (Private Chapel) Rosscahill. Co. Galway

    This church ruin is located in the centre of Rosscahill Village Co. Galway. Located in a small graveyard, there is ...
  • Moated site in Cutbush, Co. Kildare

    Moated site in Cutbush, Co. Kildare

    Ireland’s 2018 summer drought unearthed hundreds of previously unknown ancient monuments, including a partial cropmark of large moated site close ...
  • Carrowkeel Neolithic Tombs - Cairns B, E,F, G,H,K

    Carrowkeel Neolithic Tombs - Cairns B, E,F, G,H,K

    Carrowkeel is an ancient site, and one of the most important Neolithic-era sites in Ireland, dating back to 3,500-2,900 BC. 14 cairns ...
  • Gallows Hill a Community Exploration

    Gallows Hill a Community Exploration

    Gallows Hill is a large man made mound on the edge of Dungarvan town. The origins of the mound were ...
  • Tea House Folly Galway

    Tea House Folly Galway

    This is part of a designed landscape from the 18th or 19th century.
  • Oweynagat - Cave of the Cats

    Oweynagat - Cave of the Cats

    Oweynagat is a Souterrain attached to a natural fissure cave, located within the Rathcroghan archaeological complex in Co. Roscommon. The Cave ...
  • Ballylucra Cemetery

    Ballylucra Cemetery

    Ballylucra Graveyard near Brooklodge, Glanmire. Some of the graves are relatively recent (within the last decade) but most seem a lot ...
  • Palace Cinema, Dublin

    Palace Cinema, Dublin

    On 13 May 1920, the Palace Cinema opened on Great Brunswick (now Pearse) Street, Dublin, in a refurbishment of the ...
  • Old St Peter's Church

    Old St Peter's Church

    A hidden gem in the centre of Portlaoise. Tucked in behind a wall on the roundabout, the belfry offers the passerby ...
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