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30 Mar County Offaly

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This county is dominated by the peat bogs which stretch from the Bog of Allen in the East to Boora Bog in the West. Though the bogs make the area economically important they are not particularly attractive. Only in the South, where the land rises into the...

13 Oct Birr Castle and Demesne, County Offaly

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Sir Lawrence Parsons, whose family was later ennobled as the Earls of Rosse, built this massive castle in the 1620s on the site of the Offaly stronghold of the O’Carrolls, the local clan described as ‘a hospitable, fierce, yellow-haired race’. The Earls of Rosse live...

01 Nov Midlands of Ireland

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The area broadly known as the Midlands of Ireland encompasses the former Ulster counties of Cavan and Monaghan, plus Roscommon, Longford, Westmeath, Offaly and Laois (the latter pronounced 'leash'). The northern part of this region is also known as Ireland's Lakeland, and is dotted with many...

28 Feb The Lakes

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This sounds almost a romantic notion of Ireland but the "Lakes" are well worth visiting. These smallish, watery counties - Cavan and Monaghan near the Northern Ireland border, and Westmeath, Laois, Offaly, Roscommon and Longford - form the geographical heart of Ireland, yet are usually portrayed...

Offaly Tag

30 Mar County Offaly

13 Oct Birr Castle and Demesne, County Offaly

01 Nov Midlands of Ireland

28 Feb The Lakes