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  • June 9, 2014
    Thanks to being retained for parish worship for much of the 17th and 18th centuries, more remains of Grey Abbey…
  • June 4, 2014
    The battlemented keep of Knappogue – built by one of the MacNamras in 1467 – and its later extensions were…
  • June 3, 2014
    On top of a hill, in a labyrinth of lanes, stand some 300 stones. All about 3ft high and seemingly…
  • May 28, 2014
    The well-preserved ruins of an Augustinian priory stand about a quarter of a mile’s walk across fields at the edge…
  • May 27, 2014
    A ruined shell on a rise above a small, wooded rover valley is all that remains of one of the…
  • May 26, 2014
    Known as “Arann’s well” in Irish, Tipperary is full of many interesting features including monuments to some of its less…
  • May 21, 2014
    A statue of Daniel O’Connell, ‘The Liberator’, stands at the Southern end of the street named after him, overlooking O’Connell…
  • May 20, 2014
    This spacious Georgian town, with a long,  straggling main street lined with neat houses and shops, marks the Westward limits…
  • May 15, 2014
    Looking out over trim lawns, this Tudor-Gothic building with its red-brick façade, stone facings and stone-mullioned windows is all that…
  • May 14, 2014
    A popular holiday resort, Valencia Island is reached by a modern bridge that spans the 120 yard wide channel from…