Find the nearest History & Heritage in Ireland
Our History and Heritage category brings all Coast Radar’s Ireland listings related to looking for something to do or a place to visit together where they offer some form of historic or heritage based activity.
Finding the best things to see and do on a day out with your family or friends is easy – simply explore the historic and heritage links below, hit the jump to my location button or use the search bar to plan your next Ireland activity.
OR
- This is one of the oldest Christian sites in Ireland and thought to have been a monastic settlement of Saint Declan of Ardmore (c 450). Although, the current church is a mix of later periods. It was rebuilt in Irish Romanesque style (c750) and the Great Nave was erected in the year 1220. The roof timbers have been carbon dated to the year 1170. There was an early 13th century re-building and this was under the direction and hand of the Masters of four local guilds of operative masons, whose marks are still to be found on the pillars of the gothic arches.
- Fort Dunree is a coastal defence located on the west side of the Inishowen peninsula. Originally built as a Royal Navy position during the Napoleonic Wars, the fort is located on a rocky promontory accessed over a natural fissure. It was remodelled in 1895 and the top of a hill overlooking the site was walled in to form a redoubt.
- The Millmount Museum and Martello Tower are located on the fort on an ancient hill overlooking the river Boyne. The fort towers over the town of Drogheda, County Louth and is Drogheda’s most dominant feature, clearly visible from most parts of the town. Today the fort complex houses the Millmount Museum that has a wide variety of local and national artefacts. As well as the museum the whole fort is now the Millmount Cultural Quarter, including craft shops, art galleries and café and artisan food centre.
- Ross Castle is a 15th century tower house and keep on the edge of Lough Leane, in Killarney National Park, County Kerry. The castle is open to the public seasonally with guided tours.
- Westport House – visitors can tour 300 years of Irish heritage in this beautiful manor home and enjoy a myriad of attractions throughout the grounds.
- Cork Public Museum is located in a mid-19th century building within Fitzgerald Park in the Mardyke area of the city. The museum’s exhibits focus mainly on the history and archaeology of the Cork area
- Bronze statue of Patrick Sarsfield on an ashlar limestone pedestal, erected in 1880’s. The statue standing close to the street in the front lawn of the presbytery of Saint John’s Cathedral.
- Caherconnell is a medieval, exceptionally well-preserved stone ringfort, features a circular drystone enclosure wall with a diameter of 42 metres. Walls are up to 3 metres thick and up to 3 metres high although the amount of loose stones suggests a larger original height. The Caherconnell Visitor Centre is open daily from mid March to late October.
- Carraickabraghy Castle is a 16th Century castle that stands on a rocky outcrop at the north-western edge of the Isle of Doagh on the Inishowen peninsula. The castle overlooks Pollan Bay.
- The National Museum of Ireland – Decorative Arts and History is located within the old Collins Barracks that housed both British Armed Forces and Irish Army garrisons through three centuries. Built in 1702, and further extended in the late 18th century and 19th century, the barrack’s main buildings are Neo-classical in style. In 1997 the barracks became home to collections of the National Museum of Ireland (for Decorative Arts and History exhibits). Although home to the Decorative Arts and History the museum also has galleries dedicated to exhibits on military history.
- Ballincollig Royal Gunpowder Mills were originally opened in 1794 as a private enterprise, before being taken over by the British Government during the Napoleonic Wars as one of three Royal gunpowder mills that manufactured gunpowder for the British Government.
- The Waterford Crystal Factory Visitor Centre is located on the Mall in the heart of the Viking Triangle in Waterford City. The centre includes the history ofthe House of Waterford and offers tours to see exquisite pieces of crystal created before your very eyes. The centre includes shop and cafe.
