monuments ireland

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...

This life sized statue personifies Erin. It commemorates the death of three Irish Nationalists, Allen, Larkin and O'Brien, who were executed in Manchester in 1867 for their part in a Fenian rescue attempt. The column is topped by the figure of a young woman with a harp and wolfhound-the traditional symbols of romantic Ireland....

Occupying a commanding hill-top overlooking islanded Lough Gill to the south and pretty Colgagh Lake to the west, this large and imposing monument is perhaps the best example of a centre court-tomb in the country. Its traditional name, by which it is still known hereabouts, is Leacht Con Mhic Ruis. The oval court, 50 feet in length with an entrance on the south side, has two segmented galleries at its east end and one at the west. In the last century all three galleries had large lintel stones...

The three most spectacular buildings in Dublin - the Custom House, the Four Courts and King's Inn - are all the work of James Gandon, an English architect who was persuaded by Lord Beresford to come to Dublin to design his new Custom House in 1781.

The Custom House projest was fiercely opposed by rival interests and there were attacks on the site; Gandon was obliged to wear a sword to work. Even the opening of the buidings in 1791 was carried out in stealth. Gandons next great work, the...

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....

This national monument is named after Saints Fursa, Conall, Bearchan and Breandan of Birr. It stands near the village of Cowrugh, 1km west of Eochaill, and is a small 15th century building. Outside there is an enclosure called - Leaba an Cheathrair - on which there are four great flagstones, marking the graves of the saints, while to the south of the church is a holy well.

A few fields west are graves marked by plain pillar stones: also in the vicinity is the ruinous Clochan an Phuca,...

Clonakilty was the birthplace of Michael Collins and Henry Ford. The Michael Collins centre at Woodfield is a National Monument . Clonakilty Museum contains a Collins Exhibition there is also a life-size staute of him in the centre of the town in Emmet Square....

Distributed over many acres and extending into adjoining townlands, Carrowmore represents the largest grouping of megalithic monuments in Ireland, and immense Neolithic burial ground where once there may have been more than a hundred tombs. Casual exploration in the last century and present day gravel quarrying in the vicinity have devalued the archaeological potential of the site; but it is still a rewarding place to visit, steeped in atmosphere and evoking a sense of the past.
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The centre of the walled city the Diamond was once occupied by the Town Hall but since 1927 it has been the site of the War Memorial. The bronze statues and portland stone which stand 40ft high and 27ft wide are in memeory of those from Derry who fought and lost their lives during World War 1 1914-1918. Each year the November Poppy Day Parade commemorates the war heroes and the memeory of all who last thier lives. Open All Year....

The O'Connell monument which may be seen at O'Connell square is erected to the memory of Daniel O'Connell Square is erected to the memory of Daniel O'Connell who was M.P. for Clare from 1828 to 1831. It was erected in 1867 by public subscription. It was Daniel O'Connell who showed the people of Ireland that much could be achieved by peaceful means....