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  • Online Network Meeting, 24 March 2021

    Online Network Meeting, 24 March 2021

    Please find all of the meeting presentations and documents below. ICAN Updates ***updates*** Thanks to Walter McDonagh, Moycullen Heritage Group, for the inspiring presentation ...
  • Rosdoagh Court Tomb

    Rosdoagh Court Tomb

    There was a lack of knowledge in earlier centuries that meant that several monuments were just described as ‘Druid’s Circles’ ...
  • Next Steps: Caring for Community Archives: Digitisation

    Next Steps: Caring for Community Archives: Digitisation

    Kimberley Smith, Archivist Aberdeen City & Aberdeenshire Archives, focuses on the practical ways Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire Archives digitise records, ...
  • Eochy’s Cairn

    Eochy’s Cairn

    The National Monument of Eochy’s Cairn stands on a long hill near Kilmaine in Co. Mayo.  The remains of two ...
  • Burleigh House, Castlebar

    Burleigh House, Castlebar

    Burleigh House on Ellison Street in Castlebar, Co. Mayo is dated from 1700 to 1838.  The Building had Historic Connections ...
  • Embedding Third Party Digital Tools on your Website

    Embedding Third Party Digital Tools on your Website

    It’s worth mentioning that while most websites have an option to ‘share’ NOT all have the option to embed. Keep an ...
  • Ireland’s Megalithic Monuments

    Ireland’s Megalithic Monuments

    There are Four Main Types of Megalithic Monuments located within Ireland.   Three hundred to five hundred Chambered Cairns, four hundred ...
  • The Doaghbeg Mass Rock

    The Doaghbeg Mass Rock

    Below my childhood home in Doaghbeg is the shore, and along the shore under a spot called Ard Dubh (Duach) ...
  • Inishglora Island

    Inishglora Island

    During Griffiths Valuation of 1855 Inishglora Island was a part of Lord Bingham’s Estate or ‘Stripe Brendan.’  At the visit ...
  • The collapse of the old Market House/ Courthouse/ Sessions House at Roscommon Town.

    The collapse of the old Market House/ Courthouse/ Sessions House at Roscommon Town.

    Roscommon town was the Assizes town for the County of Roscommon. The ‘Sessions House’ was the place where the Court ...
  • Carrowcrom Wedge Tomb

    Carrowcrom Wedge Tomb

    This perfectly preserved Carrowcrom or Cheathrú Chrom Wedge Tomb in Co. Mayo is marked on the OS Map as ‘Dermot ...
  • Tim Severn’s unscheduled visit to Ballywhoriskey Pier on the Fanad Peninsula

    Tim Severn’s unscheduled visit to Ballywhoriskey Pier on the Fanad Peninsula

    Ballywhoriskey Pier. We once had a very special visitor to this pier. According to legend and some medieval manuscripts, Irish ...
  • Kilmolash Church, Co. Waterford

    Kilmolash Church, Co. Waterford

    Kilmolash Church is located in West Waterford about 5 kilometres from the town of Cappoquin. Today, the church can be ...
  • Medieval Dunmore, Dunmore Augustinian Friary and Claddagh Castle

    Medieval Dunmore, Dunmore Augustinian Friary and Claddagh Castle

    Introduction Dunmore is 15 kilometres north east of Tuam and it’s bounded on the north by County Roscommon, on the east by ...
  • Seaweed harvesting - the tools of the trade

    Seaweed harvesting - the tools of the trade

    ‘The wealth of the sea is proverbial, and even the weeds which grow in it are valuable and can be ...
  • Moravian Graveyard Rathfarnham

    Moravian Graveyard Rathfarnham

  • My Grandmother’s Prayer Book

    My Grandmother’s Prayer Book

  • Our local Post Box

    Our local Post Box

  • Folly House, Doonass, Clonlara, Co Clare

    Folly House, Doonass, Clonlara, Co Clare

    The Folly known as the Turret at Doonass This 18th century folly house found on the Doonass Estate, Clonlara, Co Clare ...
  • A brief history of the Kelp industry in Fanad

    A brief history of the Kelp industry in Fanad

    The harvesting of seaweed and it’s use for various purposes appears to be quite an ancient practice in Ireland. In ...
  • Harcourt Street railway line

    Harcourt Street railway line

    I live in Tullyvale/Cherrywood and have recently made a lot of videos mostly reflecting on the Harcourt Street line and ...
  • Chimneys

    Chimneys

    According to the Oxford English Dictionary: ‘Chimney‘ originally meant a ‘Fireplace.’  It is thought to have been derived from the ...
  • Mass Rock at Sylane, near Tuam

    Mass Rock at Sylane, near Tuam

    Mass Rock at Sylane, near Tuam. Lovely quiet space nestled in the midst of mature trees with a marker where ...
  • Gods of the Neale Monuments, Co. Mayo

    Gods of the Neale Monuments, Co. Mayo

    Pyramid Under Chapter marked ‘Curiosities’ this report on page 37 stated that close to the House of Lord Kilmaine in Co. ...
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