Our ancient ancestors held a deep respect and reverence for nature especially for trees. The Druids recognised five great trees known as The Guardians of the Five Provinces as highly sacred...
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Our ancient ancestors held a deep respect and reverence for nature especially for trees. The Druids recognised five great trees known as The Guardians of the Five Provinces as highly sacred...
Lady Betty, thief, Murderer and Executioner Elizabeth Sugrue was not a popular figure in Roscommon; She was known to have a violent temper, had robbed and murdered her Son and had literally saved her...
Come all you cattle dealers, come listen for a whileI’ll sing you all a verse or two that will cause you all to smile.It’s about young Monty Valentine, a smuggler I declareAnd he bought two polly...
Dunluce Castle sits dramatically on the north Antrim shoreline near the town of Bushmills. The castle sits on a basalt outcrop which is linked to the mainland by bridge. It’s believed this...
Classiebawn Castle sits isolated and alone, creating a stark impression against the Sligo landscape for those passing. The land around Mullaghmore The land on which the castle now sits once belonged...
The Grianan of Aileach is a prehistoric hillfort built of dry stone on a hill called Greenan Mountain, that rises to a height of about 800 feet some about 8km from Derry city. The enclosure is...
From A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, by Samuel Lewis (1837) BALLYSHANNON, a sea-port, market, and posttown (formerly a parliamentary borough), partly in the parish of INNISMACSAINT, but...
Rathmullan is a small, picturesque seaside village on the western shores of Lough Swilly in Co. Donegal. In 1607 the Flight of the Earls took place just outside the village in a place called Carolina...
Fanad Lighthouse dates back to 1812 when a lighthouse was proposed for the mouth of Lough Swilly following the terrible shipwreck of HMS Saldanha. George Halpin, a civil engineer, was tasked with the...
