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Frontispiece: Clerk Colvill Some British Ballads (1919)

The young man clutches his hat with one hand and with the other holds aloft a sword as he kneels at the edge of a pond. From that same pond a mermaid rises up, arms raised, breasts bare. This beautifu [...]

Keywords: people, trees, water, swords, mermaids, colour

Places shown: Slane; County Meath; Ireland

Added: 2006-05-13

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Cromleh near Dundalk Ireland, from the Druidical Antiquities plate. The Antiquities of England and Wales (1783)

This is an engraving of Proleek Dolmen, part of a megalithic portal tomb, although this should not be taken to imply that there is a burial chamber. The capstone is almost four metres long and over t [...]

Keywords: druids, megaliths, ruins, tombs, greyscale

Places shown: Dundalk; County Louth; Ireland

Added: 2005-08-05

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22.—Galleries at New Grange, Plan and Section Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

New Grange (Newgrange) is the oldest known Irish passage tomb; it could be over five thousand years old. There is also a stone circle here.

Modern Pictures of New Grange

Keywords: ruins, diagrams, tombs, burial mounds, megaliths, greyscale

Places shown: Slane; County Meath; Ireland

Added: 2005-07-24

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35.—Round Tower of Donoughmore. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

“It is easy to understand how the same religion prevailing in neighbouring countries might produce monuments of a similar character; but we find the same in the far east, in lands separated from ours [...]

Keywords: ruins, towers, roman remains, people, horses, greyscale

Places shown: Donoughmore; Navan; County Meath; Ireland

Added: 2005-09-09

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52.—Plan of Chambers at Ballyhendon Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

“Camden has given a rude [crude] representation of two caverns near Tilbury in Essex, “spacious caverns in a chalky cliff, built very artificially of stone to the height of ten fathoms [18 metres, or [...]

Keywords: plans, maps, monuments, greyscale

Places shown: Fermoy; County Tipperary; Ireland

Added: 2005-06-18

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53.—Plan of Chambers on a Farm twelve miles from Ballyhendon Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

see Fig. 52 for notes.

Keywords: plans, maps, monuments, druids, greyscale

Places shown: Fermoy; County Tipperary; Ireland

Added: 2005-06-18

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54.—Ground Plan and Section of the Subterranean Chamber at Carrighhill. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

I think the place mentioned is probably Carrick, and in particular either the neolithic Carrick East Burial Chamber or Carrigadoon Hill, but I am not certain. At any rate the text makes clear that it [...]

Keywords: plans, monuments, druids, greyscale

Places shown: Carrick-on-Suir; County Tipperary; Ireland

Added: 2005-08-17

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Two of the revellers in Irish peasant costume The Leisure Hour (1904)

Two of the revellers were dressed up to represent an old man and woman in Irish peasant costume. From a great pot in front of them they ladled out boiling tar! A man and a woman in traditional Irish [...]

Keywords: festivals, people, costumes, thatched cottages, hats, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: County Cork; Ireland

Added: 2011-03-14

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1060.—Cathedral of Kildare. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

“At Kildare, in ireland, still remain the relics of a small building in which, previous to the thirteenth century, the holy fire of St. Brigid used to be kept burning. It was suppressed at that period [...]

Keywords: cathedrals, ruins, arches, towers, trees, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: Kildare; County Kildare; Ireland

Added: 2007-03-15

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Dunluce Castle Youth’s Instruction (1830)

Drawn & Engd. by J Mc. Gahey. “The castle of Dunluce is one of the most extensive and beautiful remnants of feudal architecture at present remaining in Ireland. Though it has long ceased to be the r [...]

Keywords: ruins, castles, people, greyscale

Places shown: Bushmills; County Antrim; Ireland

Added: 2005-03-14

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