This is an attractive small village in County Westmeath. The village is laid out English style, around a green. It is popular on tours of Ireland for fishing. There is a tiny village called Fore nearby. Fore stands among a group of ecclesiastical ruins. There is a graveyard beside the...
Words in stone network round the crown of the abbey tower read ‘King Robert the Bruce’. Here, before the high altar, the great hero of the medieval Wars of Independence is buried. Dunfermline’s Benedictine abbey dates from the 12th century but lettering such as that...
The dark, biscuit-coloured tower of Jerpoint Abbey, with its battlements, rears above a bend on the road South from Thomastown. The Abbey is one of the most awesome religious remains in Ireland, yet, because many of its domestic arrangements are still recognisable, it also gives...