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If you are on tours of Ireland then Carrowmore is a real hidden gem. It is an extensive megalithic cemetery , possibly started in the fifth millenium B.C. It has been much depleted by stone -quarrying but was formerly the largest known collection of megalithic tombs in...

A real hidden gem. Castletown House is the first , and largest , Palladian-style country house in Ireland. It is located in Cellbridge , County Kildare and worth seeing on any tours of Ireland. The original design by Alessandro Galilei (1691-1737) influenced the architecture of Leinster House ,...

Everyone on tours of Ireland has heard of the " Book of Kells" But a real hidden gem is the "Book of Durrow" It is a copy of the Gospels and one of Europes most important manuscripts , surviving from around 700 A.D Of uncertain provenance (Ireland or...