museums ireland

Climb on board for a short train ride - or travel further afield on a special mainline steam excursion. Many engines and coaches are on display in transport museums and railway centres, with memorabilia from the golden age of steam.

The first railway in Ireland opened in 1834, and the network quickly reached into all corners of the island. By 1920 almost 3,500 miles of track threaded the countryside and no Irish town was more than 10 miles from a railway station.

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The Museum is situated on the outskirts of this beautiful village, Bennettsbridge, overlooking the silvery waters of the river Nore, looking across at some of the most beautiful scenery in Ireland, including Mount Leinster and the Black Stairs Mountains.

The Museum houses a fine collection of objects of Irish historical interest, it also houses an old time Kitchen, Pub, Carpenters Workshop, Forge, Threshing Set and Dairy as well as displays of old Irish Transport and a Petrol Station,...

Millmount Museum is an award winning museum founded by the Old Drogheda Society in 1974. It is located in the courtyard of the Millmount Complex overlooking the town of Drogheda. It houses a unique and interesting collection of historical material of both local and national interest, including Guild and Trade Banners, Folk Kitchen, and Geological Collection. Please telephone for further details and opening times. Directions: From N1, turn up Mary Street at War Memorial, and turn right...

The James Tower in Sandycove is famous as the setting for the opening of James Joyce's Ulysses, now acclaimed as the greatest and most influential novel of the twentieth century.
Dramatically located on a cliff-top overlooking the sea, the tower stands eight miles south of Dublin on the coast road. It clearly impressed Joyce, whose brief stay here in 1904 inspired the opening of Ulysses.
Stately, plump Buck Mulligan gazes out at the 'snotgreen' sea from this tower in the openi...

Originally erected, according to legend, for a son of Milesius (the man responsible for leading the Milesians (Celts) from Spain to Ireland), the hill was later used as a meeting place by the Vikings and as a defensive stronghold by the Normans. The barracks, which was stormed by Cromwell in 1649, was later used as a prison during the tensions of 1916 and was severely shelled during the Civil War in 1922. Today it has been converted into a fine craft centre and museum, incorporating a restaura...

Limerick Museum won the first Gulbenkian Award in 1992. Its comprehensive displays illustrate the long and varied history of Limerick City and its surrounding area. The collection includes civic antiquities, artefacts from the Stone and Bronze Ages and Medieval times, award-winning examples of Limerick lace, a trades history display and a currency display....

Lar na Pairce, Thurles is a new and exciting Visitor Centre which illustrates the history and development of Gaelic Games from earliest times....

Monaghan Town has one of the finest museums in the world, "County Museum", located on Hill Street. Its aim is to provide an education and service for the county and to collect and preserve its heritage....