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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.
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- Bantry House and Garden is situated on the Wild Atlantic Way overlooking Bantry Bay. The hoiuse has been home to the White family since 1739 and was first opened to the public in 1946. Today visitors can explore the house, formal gardens, and stop off for tea in the tearoom.
- 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.
- Teach Synge is a restored 300 year old cottage on the beautiful island of Inishmaan (one of the Aran Islands) in County Galway. The restored cottage is now a museum to the life and work of the playwright, John Millington Synge, 1871-1909.
- The Battle of the Boyne Visitor Centre is at the site of a famous historic battle in 1690 on the banks of the River Boyne. Two rival monarchs, King James II and his son-in-law William III, commanded their armies in person. William had 36,000 troops and James had 25,000, the largest number of soldiers ever deployed on an Irish battlefield. The visitor centre is located in the restored 18th Century Oldbridge House and the nearby Townley Hall Woods Trail takes visitors through King William’s Glen where the Williamite troops were ultimately victorious.
- Beltany is a neolithic stone circle situated at the summit of Tops Hill, dating from around 1400-800 BC and comprises 64 stones around a low earth platform or tumulus.
- Wicklow Gaol was originally built in the late eighteenth century though there has been a jail on the site since 1702. The Goal tells the story of its prisoners through an interactive tour led by experience guides. The Goal is over three stories with walls of thick granite slabs and rubble stone.
- The Treaty of Limerick ended the Williamite War in Ireland between the Jacobites and the supporters of William of Orange. The treaty reputedly signed on 3 October 1691 on the Treaty Stone, an irregular block of limestone which once served as a mounting block for horses.
- Thoor Ballylee Castle is a fortified, 15th/16th century Hiberno-Norman tower house built by the septs de Burgo, or Burke. It is also known as Yeats’ Tower because it was once owned and inhabited (1921 to 1929) by the poet William Butler Yeats.
- Sligo Abbey is a Dominican Friary founded in the mid 13th century by Maurice Fitzgerald. The abbay contains carvings including Gothic and Renaissance tomb sculpture, a well preserved cloister and the only sculptured 15th century high altar to survive in any Irish monastic church.
- The Custom House in Cork was built in 1818, and designed by the architect Abraham Hargrave. In 1882 it became the headquarters of the Cork Harbour Commissioners, now known as the Port of Cork Company.
- The Céide Fields is a Neolithic site archaeological site on the north County Mayo coast and contains the oldest known stone-walled fields in the world, dating back nearly 6,000 years. The visitor centre is located beside some of the most spectacular cliffs and rock formations in Ireland and a viewing platform is positioned on the edge of the 110m high cliff.
- Glendalough cathedral has undergone many transformations during the ages and this can be seen within the ruins.
