Items in Ireland

Antique Map of Munster

Antique Map of Munster

Keywords: maps, colour

Places shown: Munster; Ireland

Added: 2008-10-09

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Antique Map of Ulster

Antique Map of Ulster

Keywords: maps, colour

Places shown: Ulster; Ireland

Added: 2008-10-09

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Antique Map of Connaught

Antique Map of Connaught

Keywords: maps, colour

Places shown: Connaught; Ireland

Added: 2008-10-09

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Antique Map of Leinster

Antique Map of Leinster

Keywords: maps, colour

Places shown: Leinster; Ireland

Added: 2008-10-09

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Cromleh near Dundalk Ireland, from the Druidical Antiquities plate.

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

Places shown: Dundalk; County Louth; Ireland

Added: 2006-01-11

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52.—Plan of Chambers at Ballyhendon

“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

Places shown: Fermoy; County Tipperary; Ireland

Added: 2005-12-20

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54.—Ground Plan and Section of the Subterranean Chamber at Carrighhill.

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

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

Added: 2005-12-20

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53.—Plan of Chambers on a Farm twelve miles from Ballyhendon

see Fig. 52 for notes.

Keywords: plans, maps, monuments, druids

Places shown: Fermoy; County Tipperary; Ireland

Added: 2005-12-20

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22.—Galleries at New Grange, Plan and Section

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

Places shown: Slane; County Meath; Ireland

Added: 2005-12-20

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35.—Round Tower of Donoughmore.

“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

Places shown: Ardmore; County Cork; Ireland

Added: 2005-12-20

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1060.—Cathedral of Kildare.

“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

Places shown: Kildare; County Kildare; Ireland

Added: 2007-03-15

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Frontispiece: Clerk Colvill

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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