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History Museum Attractions In Ireland

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Ireland is an island in the North Atlantic. It is separated from Great Britain to its east by the North Channel, the Irish Sea, and St George's Channel. Ireland is the second-largest island of the British Isles, the third-largest in Europe, and the twentieth-largest on Earth.Politically, Ireland is divided between the Republic of Ireland , which covers five-sixths of the island, and Northern Ireland, which is part of the United Kingdom. In 2011, the population of Ireland was about 6.6 million, ranking it the second-most populous island in Europe after Great Britain. Just under 4.8 million live in the Republic of Ireland and just over 1.8 million live i...
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History Museum Attractions In Ireland

  • 2. Castletown House County Kildare
    Castletown House, Celbridge, County Kildare, Ireland, is a Palladian country house built in 1722 for William Conolly, the Speaker of the Irish House of Commons. It formed the centrepiece of a 550-acre estate. Sold to developers in 1965, the estate is now divided between State and private ownership.
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  • 4. Barack Obama Plaza visitor centre Moneygall
    Barack Obama Plaza , is an off line service area, at Junction 23 of the M7 on the outskirts of the village of Moneygall on the border of Counties Tipperary and Offaly in Ireland. The plaza was opened for business in June 2014 and is accessed using the existing junction 23 slip roads. It is named after US president Barack Obama, whose 3rd great grandfather lived nearby. The ancestor was reportedly Falmouth Kearney, who emigrated to the US in 1850.The service station cost 7 million euros to construct, and opened in 2014. In 2017 the station was briefly announced to have been renamed Trump Plaza, as an April fools joke.
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  • 5. Hunt Museum Limerick
    The Hunt Museum is a museum in the city of Limerick, Ireland. The Hunt Museum holds a personal collection donated by the Hunt family, it was originally situated in the University of Limerick, before being moved to its present location in the Georgian Custom House in 1997. The Custom House is situated on Rutland Street on the banks of the River Shannon at its confluence with the Abbey River. Among the museum's collection are works by notable artists and designers such as Pablo Picasso, Jack B. Yeats, and Sybil Connolly as well as distinctive historical items such as the O' Dea Mitre and Crozier.
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  • 6. Kerry County Museum Tralee
    County Kerry is a county in Ireland. It is located in the South-West Region and is also part of the province of Munster. It is named after the Ciarraige who lived in part of the present county. Kerry County Council is the local authority for the county and Tralee serves as the county town. The population of the county was 147,707 at the 2016 census.
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  • 7. Bishop's Palace Waterford
    The Cashel Palace Hotel, in Cashel, County Tipperary, Ireland, was built around 1730 in a late Queen Anne/early Georgian-style. It was originally the residence of the Church of Ireland archbishops, until they moved to Waterford.The hotel's main restaurant, The Bishop's Buttery, is a fine dining restaurant that was awarded one Michelin star in 1982 and 1983. The Egon Ronay Guide awarded the restaurant one star in 1982. The kitchen style of the restaurant is Modern. The head chef and owner at the time of the Michelin star was Declan Ryan.The hotel ceased trading in 2015 and was later sold to developer John Magnier. In 2017, redevelopment started with plans in to reopen the hotel by 2019.
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  • 9. The Clare Museum Ennis
    Heavy Rail services in Ireland are provided by Iarnród Éireann in the Republic of Ireland and by Northern Ireland Railways in Northern Ireland. Most routes in the Republic radiate from Dublin. Northern Ireland has suburban routes from Belfast and two main InterCity lines, to Derry and cross-border to Dublin. The accompanying map of the current railway network shows lines that are fully operational , carrying freight only traffic and with dotted black lines those which have been mothballed . Some airports are indicated but none are rail-connected, although Kerry Airport and Belfast City Airport are within walking distance of a railway station. Both the City of Derry Airport and Belfast International are near railway lines but not connected. Ports are marked, although few remain rail-conne...
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  • 10. Skibbereen Heritage Centre Skibbereen
    Skibbereen , is a town in County Cork, Ireland. It is located on the N71 national secondary road. The name Skibbereen means little boat harbour. The River Ilen runs through the town; it reaches the sea about 12 kilometers away, at the seaside village of Baltimore. As of the Census of Ireland 2011, the population of the town was 2,568. Skibbereen is in the Cork South-West constituency, which has three seats.
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  • 11. The Workhouse Dunfanaghy
    This list of museums in Ireland contains museums which are defined for this context as institutions that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing. Also included are non-profit art galleries and university art galleries. Museums that exist only in cyberspace are not included. Many other small historical displays are located in the country's stately homes, including those run by the National Trust. To use the sortable table, click on the icons at the top of each column to sort that column in alphabetical order; click again for reverse alphabetical order.
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  • 12. Listowel Military Museum Listowel
    Listowel is a Heritage town and a market town in County Kerry, Ireland, and is situated on the River Feale, 28 km from the county town, Tralee. The town of Listowel had a population of 4,820 according to the CSO Census 2016.Described by the organisers of Listowel's writers festival as the Literary Capital of Ireland, a number of internationally known playwrights and authors have lived there, including Bryan MacMahon and John B. Keane.
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  • 13. Cork City Gaol Cork
    Cork is a city in south-west Ireland, in the province of Munster, which had a population of 125,622 in 2016. It is the third largest city on the island of Ireland, after Dublin and Belfast, and the second largest in the Republic of Ireland. The city is situated on the River Lee which splits into two channels at the western end and divides the city centre into islands. They reconverge at the eastern end where the quays and docks along the river banks lead outwards towards Lough Mahon and Cork Harbour, which is one of the largest natural harbours in the world by navigational area.Expanded by Viking invaders around 915, the city's charter was granted by Prince John, as Lord of Ireland, in 1185. Cork city was once fully walled, and the remnants of the old medieval town centre can be found arou...
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  • 14. Galway City Museum Galway
    Galway is a city in the West of Ireland, in the province of Connacht. Galway lies on the River Corrib between Lough Corrib and Galway Bay, surrounded by County Galway, and is the sixth most populous city in Ireland, with a population at the 2016 Census of 79,934.Galway will be the European Capital of Culture in 2020, alongside Rijeka, Croatia.
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  • 15. Rothe House and Garden Kilkenny
    Rothe House is a late 16th-century merchant's townhouse complex located in the city of Kilkenny. The complex was built by John Rothe Fitz-Piers between 1594–1610 and is made up of three houses, three enclosed courtyards, and a large reconstructed garden with orchard.Rothe House is the only remaining example of its type in Ireland, and considered to be nationally significant because of the range of original post-medieval features that survive. The property, an important element of Kilkenny's heritage, is owned by the Kilkenny Archaeological Society and houses some of the society's collection of artefacts relating to Kilkenny City, County and Ireland. The garden to the rear of the house has been reconstructed to reflect a typical 17th-century garden. The burgage plot on which Rothe House w...
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