Skip to content
Our Irish Heritage
Supporting & Promoting Irish History & Culture
Home
About
Explore our archive
Resources
KnowYour5k
Contact
Contribute
Twitter
Search
Search:
You are here:
Home
next
See what's new
See what's new
Dublin Viaducts
27/04/2021
Viaducts are a specific long series of bridges supported by spans or arches between pillars. They were related to Aqueducts ...
Remembering our West of Ireland Boats
27/04/2021
Did you grow up in a fishing community, was your family involved in boat building or have you a memory ...
Summer Sunshine in Moore Hall
23/04/2021
Moore Hall in a silhouette of sunlight on a summer’s day as I walk up the avenue shrouded in a ...
Making a currach - Michael Conneely, a new National Museum of Ireland online exhibition
22/04/2021
The currach, with its primitive design of wooden frame and waterproof skin, is the best known of all the Irish ...
Rathfran Abbey Ruins
21/04/2021
The ruins of the Dominican Abbey or Friary of Rathfran are situated on the left bank of the Avonmore River, ...
Addergoole Abbey
19/04/2021
Knox described the Churches of that era as ‘typical, whether Romanesque as original. They differ a little in proportion of ...
Rathfranpark Wedge Tomb
15/04/2021
This large, destroyed Wedge Tomb is marked as a ‘Cromlech’ on both the Ordnance Survey & Historic Maps. Rathfranpark Tomb ...
Castlebar’s Wizard of Oz
15/04/2021
Louis Brennan Meet Louis Brennan, inventor extraordinaire and one of the most remarkable people born in this county. He was a ...
Knox – Gore Monument
14/04/2021
This eye – catching Knox – Gore Monument situated within Beleek Woods is a popular visitor site. It was erected ...
Major – General John Francis Cradock M P
14/04/2021
This Irishman distinguished himself in a Military Career, he acted as a Politician plus received an Honour from the British ...
Bofeenaun Abbey Ruins
14/04/2021
Dr. Yvonne Mc Dermott published an excellent article, entitled ‘Bofeenaun Friary: History and Architecture of a late Medieval Religious House.’ ...
Shaw's Grocery Book, Baltinglass, Co Wicklow
14/04/2021
This grocery book belonged to my grandparents, Albert Shaw of Ballymahon, Co. Longford, 1883 – 1928 and Ethel Perry Shaw ...
Inishmaine Abbey
12/04/2021
Inishmaine Abbey once sat on an island of Lough Mask. Due to the lowering of water on construction of a ...
The Gazabo of Lacken
12/04/2021
The Lacken Gazebo is North Mayo is one of the most conspicuous or curious sculptures. It formed a double arch ...
Mayo Abbey, Inisboffin, Inishark connection
08/04/2021
Mayo Abbey Introduction Mayo is known as the “plain of the yew trees” and is one of the most important monastic sites ...
Rathdown: Wicklow’s Ancient Heartland
08/04/2021
Kilgeever’s Historic Sites
07/04/2021
The Louisburgh area has over seven hundred known Archaeological Monuments including the following: Abbey Ruins, Standing Stones, Holy Wells, Historic ...
Aillemore Court Tomb
07/04/2021
This Aillemore Court Tomb is marked on the Historic & OS Maps as ‘Cromlech.’ It is located on a steep ...
Breastagh Ogham Stone
25/03/2021
This Megalithic Ogham Stone is perhaps one of the most well-known Standing Stones within Ireland. It is believed to have ...
Rosdoagh Court Tomb
24/03/2021
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
24/03/2021
Kimberley Smith, Archivist Aberdeen City & Aberdeenshire Archives, focuses on the practical ways Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire Archives digitise records, ...
Eochy’s Cairn
22/03/2021
The National Monument of Eochy’s Cairn stands on a long hill near Kilmaine in Co. Mayo. The remains of two ...
Burleigh House Castlebar
22/03/2021
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
22/03/2021
It’s worth mentioning that while most websites have an option to ‘share’ NOT all have the option to embed. Keep an ...
PAGE:
< Previous
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
Next >
Last >>
Latest comments
Lorna Elms
on
Bridget Quinn
13/05/2021
Hi Paul, Thank you for your comment. According to an article in the Irish Press, November 1955, the air raid...
Jim Quinn
on
Emigrants Teapot
13/05/2021
Just beautiful Many memories flood the mind when one reads your poem Well done
Noelene Beckett Crowe
on
Two Mile Bridge
12/05/2021
This is a beautiful photo of the bridge Conor.
Mike B
on
Two Mile Bridge
09/05/2021
The Stone Bridge down river from Two Mile Bridge was built in 1819
More new comments
