monuments ireland

This finely decorated but incomplete High Cross is contemporary with the Hiberno-Romanesque arch in St Mary's Cathedral. It was built in the 12th century by Turloch O' Connor to commemorate the completion of St Mary's Cathedral and his victory over the O' Flahertys. It is now located in the grounds of the Church of Ireland Cathedral....

This centre of 20th century commerce is one of the most striking of Dublin 's 18th century buildings Built in 1729 to house the Irish Parliament , it became redundant when the British and Irish Parliament were united in London. Indeed, the Irish Parliament voted itself out of existence the only recorded parliament in history to do so.

It would be a shame to leave our noble city without spending a few moments in one of Europe’s most unique chambers, the Irish House of Lords, where...

The Browne Doorway has stood in Eyre Square for three-quarters of a century. It was removed from an old mansion in Lower Abbeygate Street and bears the arms of the Brown and Lynch families dated 1627. It is now the entrance to the John Fitzgerald Memorial Park, Eyre Square....

Patrick Kavanagh was born 21st October 1904 in Iniskeen, County Monaghan. He was educated locally and later worked on his father's farm which he described in some of his works.
Kavanagh's first book "Ploughman and other Poems" was published in 1938, followed by two novels "The Green Fool" and "Tarry Flynn", both considered to be classics.

The following year Kavanagh went to Dublin where he supported himself as a literary journalist contributing articles the "The Bell", "Envoy" and...

The strong iron cannons, which have stood in Eyre Square for as long as anybody can remember, were presented to the Connaught Rangers, at the end of the Crimean War. The Rangers who subsequently became known throughout the world for their mutiny in India during 1920 in support of the Irish War of Independence, were involved in the Alma Valley battles in 1854. During the course of the campaign they captured and destroyed the town of Burlymk. To mark this and other military achievements they were...

Outside the graveyard of the seventeenth century parish church, a blue plaque commemorates the poet Charles Wolfe (1791-1823) who was curate of Donaghmore 1818-21. His famous lines on 'The Burial of Sir John Moors' were published in the Newry Telegraph in 1817....

The Lynch Memorial is situated near the Church of St Nicholas in the form of a black marble stone over a built-up Gothic doorway. It commemorates the - stern and unbending justice - of James Lynch Fitzstephen, Mayor of Galway in 1493, who found his own son Walter guilty of murdering a Spanish visitor and condemned him to death. When no one could be found to carry out the sentence, so the popular but dubious legend goes, the Mayor hanged his own son before retiring into seclusion....

This well known monument stands at Arboe Point, 'the Hill of the Cow', on the west shore of Lough Neagh. It is a particularly fine specimen and belongs to a late period in the development of the sculptured free-standing ringed crosses. In its present form it is a reconstruction, the upper part having fallen in 1846, and now stands 18 feet high. The carved details depict biblical scenes some of which are self evident - Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes, the Crucifixion, David and Goliath, the Last...

Standing in the centre of Patrick Street, this statue commemorates Fr. Thoebold Matthew, the apostle of Temperance(1790 - 1861), He was known and loved in Cork for his efforts to alleviate distress during the cholera epidemic of 1832 and during the Great Famine from 1845 to1850. He was also responsible for the purchase of the botanic gardens in Ballyphehane and the establishment of St Joseph's cemetery on that site.

The statue of Fr. Matthew was erected 10 October 1864 and it has...

Prehistoric landscape with a court tomb, wedge tomb, cairns stone circles and field walls reported to be the remains of a Stone Age settlement.
Nearby in Mullaboy Churchyard lies an ancient stone cross.

Location : Off Dungiven Road

Opening Hours: All year - Restricted to viewing from fenced area...