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Haggerty's Bridge
10/08/2020
Haggerty’s Bridge at Kilcoltrim is a single-arch hump-back road bridge over railway, built 1862, with rusticated voussoirs, cut stone stringcourses ...
Dún Laoghaire (Mallin) Railway Station
10/08/2020
The original station for Dún Laoghaire, then known as Kingstown, was situated some 0.8km closer to Dublin at the West ...
Shannon Hydro-electric Scheme
10/08/2020
This line was built to transport materials and for earthworks in connection with the building of the Shannon Hydro-electric Power ...
Adamstown Rail Station
09/08/2020
Adamstown Rail Station opened on 10 April 2007. It is just south of the old Lucan South station which closed ...
Broombridge Rail Station
09/08/2020
Broombridge Rail station is situated beside the LUAS stop in Cabra West, Dublin 7. It lies in the southern bank ...
Westport Railway Station
09/08/2020
The Westport Railway station opened in 1866 and is part of the Midland Great Western Railway (MGWR) by the Great ...
Dromod Station
09/08/2020
Dromod station was opened in 1887 and ceased passenger operation in 1959. The narrow gauge railway line, in full working ...
Ceannt Station
09/08/2020
Ceannt Station was built in 1851 to the designs of J.S Mulvany. It is sited just off Eyre Street and ...
Boyne Viaduct
08/08/2020
The Boyne Viaduct is a 30m high railway bridge that crosses the River Boyne in Drogheda, carrying the main Dublin ...
Dublin Broadstone
07/08/2020
Broadstone was operational from 1847. It was constructed as the Dublin terminus of the Midland & Great Western Railway, which ...
Local History & Heritage Course 2020-2021: Ballinrobe, Co. Mayo
07/08/2020
A new course in Local History & Heritage will be delivered during the autumn 2020 and the spring of 2021. ...
Engine no.36
06/08/2020
‘Engine No.36’ is not only an old steam locomotive but is also the oldest on display indoors in Ireland. It has ...
Kent Station
06/08/2020
Kent Station is one of Ireland’s major railway stations. The station was originally called Glanmire Road Station, but was renamed after Thomas ...
Heuston Station
06/08/2020
Heuston Station (formerly Kingsbridge Station until 1966) is one of Ireland’s most recognisable rail stations named after Seán Houston, one ...
Colbert Station
06/08/2020
Colbert Railway Station building itself was opened in 1857 on the Great Southern & Western Railway (GS&WR) replacing an earlier, ...
Irish Rail Master Map
05/08/2020
The Iarnród Éireann Irish Rail map is presented by Iarnród Éireann in collaboration with railway community groups and enthusiasts to celebrate ...
Lansdowne Road Celebrates 150 years
31/07/2020
Lansdowne & Ball’s Bridge station was opened 150 years ago on 1 July 1870 by the Dublin Wicklow & Wexford ...
Charlton's Folly
29/07/2020
Moatefarrell, Edgeworthstown County Longford About the Author: Matthew Farrellwas Ireland’s Heritage Hero for 2017 awarded by the Heritage Council for my work ...
Lord Crofton's boathouse at Gailey Bay, Co Roscommon
29/07/2020
Lord Crofton’s boat house followed a pattern which can be seen in many other sea and lakeside boathouses, such as ...
Dolmen of the Four Moals
28/07/2020
A Megalithic tomb is located on Primrose Hill above the railway station in Ballina Co. Mayo. Its latitude is 546 ...
Roodstown Castle, Co. Louth
27/07/2020
Roodstown Castle is a prominent feature of the built heritage of Co. Louth. Its excellent state of preservation gives it ...
Murrisk Abbey
22/07/2020
Murrisk Abbey in Carrowkeel in County Mayo is situated on the shores of Clew Bay in the shadow of Croagh ...
Glengad Stone Circle
21/07/2020
This little circle lies on a lower slope of Barncuille surveying Broad Haven with the Cliffs of Rinroe on the ...
Dún Briste / Downpatrick Head
20/07/2020
Dún Briste Dún Briste or Broken Fort was once joined to the mainland on North Mayo’s coastline. The sea stack stands ...
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Frank Galvin
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Pat McNicholas
10/11/2021
You will never again see the best hard working generation of Irish workers , who turned up for work in...
Noelene Beckett Crowe
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The song of Slawmin-a-wool
10/11/2021
Wonderful poem Michael...like Paraic Colum's 'The Old Woman of the Roads'
Noelene Beckett Crowe
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Mayo
10/11/2021
Amazing memories of a childhood in Mayo. Love this 'hills shyly shoulder each other.'
Noelene Beckett Crowe
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The song of the scythe
10/11/2021
This is excellent Michael. Well done. Reminisent of Helaire Bellock in 'The Mowing of a Field.'
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