Once the chief town of the Earls of Desmond , Kilmallock still retains much of its medieval past. It is named after the monastery built here in the 7th century by St Mocheallog. A large section of its walls , including the massive Blossom Gate...
Two miles beyond Dunmore Head , the Westernmost tip of the peninsula , monstrous humps of rock with dizzying cliff faces rise from the sea among a multitude of lesser rocks and reefs. These are the Blasket Islands , scene of many shipwrecks over the...
About 4 miles off Sligo’s untamed Northern coast lies an uninhabited , windswept island that contains one of the best preserved early Christian monasteries in Ireland. The monastery was founded by St Molaise in the 6th century and destroyed by the Vikings in 807. Three...
The lighthouse at Hook Head is an astonishing building , if only for the fact it was constructed some 600 years before the stone-built lighthouses pioneered in the 18th century by James Smeaton. It was a Norman , Raymond le Gros , who built it...
Once known as Belfast Cathedral , this Anglican Cathedral was built between 1899 and 1927 on the site of the old parish church and still incorporates part of the original building. The cathedral is neo-Romanesque , 300ft long with a 120ft nave , and divided...
On the coast road between Bray and Greystones is Kilruddery House , built in Tudor Revival style in 1820. The estate has been the family home of the Earls of Meath for more than 300 years , and the extensive Kilruddery Gardens have been cultivated...
A narrow lane opens suddenly onto the Shannon estuary , revealing a short jetty , a line of ruined , ivy-clad cottages and the dilapidated keep of the 13th century castle. It was built by John Fitzjohn Fitzgerald and remained in his family , the Knights...
The elegance of Huntington Castle , built at Clonegall in 1625 by Lord Esmond , caught the eye of director Stanley Kubrick , who chose it as the location for his 1975 film Barry Lyndon. The castle occupies the site of a monastery , of which...
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