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Moycullen, Co. Galway, 31st May 2019
01/07/2020
Images credit: Sean Lydon
Moycullen Heritage Category Winner at the Prestigious CAHG Awards, Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 10 July 2019
01/07/2020
Irish Fjords
01/07/2020
Several areas of Europe have fjords: however, many are less pronounced due to the limited exposure of westerly winds. Within ...
St David's Well, Ballinaslaney, Oylegate
29/06/2020
St. David’s Well at Oylegate, County Wexford.
WW1 Ballina Heroes
29/06/2020
Commemoration One hundred & eighty – two Ballina soldiers who lost their lives during the first world war were commemorated with ...
Nymphsfield Stone Circles
29/06/2020
Mayo Stone Circles The Cong area of Co. Mayo has been associated with the arrival of Túatha De Dannan plus the ...
George Clarkson
25/06/2020
1901 – https://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Limerick/Ardpatrick/Kilmihil/1492731/
Martin ‘Doc’ O ‘Carroll
24/06/2020
Musician / Singer Martin O ‘Carroll was born in the village of Tourmakeady, Co. Mayo on 19th November 1939. His mother ...
Drumlane Abbey Church and Round Tower
22/06/2020
Drumlane is pleasantly situated near the quiet Co. Cavan village of Miltown,, a monastic site overlooking Lough Derrybrick often associated ...
19th Century Lime Kiln
22/06/2020
19th Century (c. 1820) Lime Kiln (Restored 2006). On the site of NUI Galway Campus near Fisheries Field.
Marriage Coat of Arms Wall Carving
22/06/2020
Image of a 17th Century Marriage Coat of Arms carved into a wall. Families unknown although could be Fox and another ...
Heroic Nurses
19/06/2020
These amazing women deserve to be honoured for their heroic service to humanity. Michael Feeney in his book ‘Remembering Mayo’s Fallen ...
Cong. County Mayo
18/06/2020
Introduction to Cong, County Mayo
St. Augustine's Holy Well
18/06/2020
St. Augustine’s Holy Well. Located in Lough Atalia, Galway City.
Cappanalaurabaun / Ceapach na Lára Báine
18/06/2020
The Oughterard region has only recently become my home (1year) having visited the area since I first moved to Galway ...
Cruicetown Cemetery, Church and Motte
15/06/2020
Cruicetown is a civil parish near the village of Nobber in the barony of Kells Lower, Co Meath comprising of ...
Austin Bourke
13/06/2020
The Murrisk Mariner Austie Bourke has been recalled in songs and stories in his native Murrisk but many beyond his native ...
Dhuish National School, Shercock, Co. Cavan 1875-1975
10/06/2020
Dhuish National School was opened in 1875 and was assigned number 7927. According to an article in the Anglo Celt, ...
Dunaweel wood
10/06/2020
Dunaweel wood is an old wood found on the first edition Ordnance survey maps which date from the 1830s . By ...
A truly strange stone cross outside an optician's on the corner of Kevin Street and Bride Street
10/06/2020
Black Friary Car Park
10/06/2020
Across the road from our house in Kilkenny is a car park. For the past few months as my daughter ...
Old Coombe Hospital
06/06/2020
The Old Coombe Hospital formally opened as the Coombe Lying-in Hospital in 1829 and was granted a Royal Charter in ...
Ireland's Oldest Credit Union
06/06/2020
Ireland’s Oldest Credit Union Donore Credit Union, founded in 1958.
The oldest tree in Ireland
06/06/2020
This ancient yew tree on the grounds of St Patrick’s College, Maynooth, known as the Silken Thomas tree, is thought ...
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Thank you for drawing our attention to the typo in the above post - this has now been corrected.
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