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  • Remembering our West of Ireland Boats

    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

    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

    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

    Rathfran Abbey Ruins

    21/04/2021
    The Dominican Abbey or Friary Ruins of Rathfran are located on the left bank of the Avonmore River, near to ...
  • Addergoole Abbey

    Addergoole Abbey

    19/04/2021
    Knox described Churches of that era as ‘typical, whether Romanesque as original.  They differ a little in proportion of length ...
  • Castlebar’s Wizard of Oz

    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

    Knox – Gore Monument

    14/04/2021
    This eye – catching Knox – Gore Monument situated within Beleek Woods is a popular visitor Site.  It was constructed ...
  • Major - General John Francis Cradock M P

    Major - General John Francis Cradock M P

    14/04/2021
    This Irishman distinguished himself in a Military Career He was an active Politician.  He received an Honour from the British ...
  • Bofeenaun Abbey Ruins

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    Rathdown: Wicklow’s Ancient Heartland

    08/04/2021
  • Kilgeever’s Historic Sites

    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 also ...
  •  Aillemore Court Tomb

     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

    Breastagh Ogham Stone

    25/03/2021
    This Megalithic Ogham Stone is perhaps one of the most well – known Standing Stones within Ireland.  It was believed ...
  • Rosdoagh Court Tomb

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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 ...
  • Ireland’s Megalithic Monuments

    Ireland’s Megalithic Monuments

    18/03/2021
    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

    16/03/2021
    Below my childhood home in Doaghbeg is the shore, and along the shore under a spot called Ard Dubh (Duach) ...
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  • Noelene Beckett Crowe. on William O’Dwyer

    21/06/2022
    That is so interesting Sean. Thanks for details. Also Paul his Brother has been honoured on site. Perhaps you may...
  • Noelene Beckett Crowe. on Church at Kilmolash and Easter

    21/06/2022
    Art thank you for an excellent impressive, interesting article. The images are wonderful...great that you discovered the light shining through...
  • Jimmy Reidy on A Typical Night in the Hangar, Salthill, 1953

    16/06/2022
    I used to hear my late Mam, talk about the enjoyment she had in the *hanger ballroom" She worked in...
  • Ann Irwin on Search for Moran Ancestors

    27/05/2022
    The Tithe Applotment Books of c 1834 records all the male holders of land in Ireland. In the 1850's have...
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