Kilmacanogue (Irish: Chill Mocheanog, Mocheanogs' Church) is a small village in North County Wicklow. It is close to Bray and it is a village at a busy crossroads where traffic on the main Wicklow Road diverts to Glendalough via the Lakes at Roundwood and Laragh with the
Sugar Loaf Mountain towering above.
In their day the late Misses Overend, Letitia (b.1880) and Naomi (b.1900) were a legend. There are lots of colourful recollections about the sisters from the way they gave lifts to local school children who were able to recite the registration nu ...
A treasured location
Bull Island, home to The Royal Dublin Golf Club, is a protected wildlife habitat with a fabulous range of flora and fauna. Despite this, it is only three miles (5km) from Dublin city centre ...
For centuries, the hill where Avon Rí is now located looked out over a valley created by the Liffey and King's River. Avon Rí has taken its name from the latter and now looks out of the Blessington Lakes – a reservoir created ...
Ireland's best known Victorian public park and at 22 acres (9 hectares) St Stephen's Green is the largest of the parks in Dublin's main Georgian squares.
Re-opened by Lord Ardilaun in 1880 for the citizens of Dublin it has been maintained in ...
Up on a hill overlooking Leixlip village, just eight miles from Dublin city centre, this fine Georgian house was built in 1722 and is furnished and decorated to a high standard in period style and, with gleaming antique furniture and gilt-framed ...
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