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Strokestown Heritage Centre
Strokestown, Roscommon
This former Church of Ireland built in 1819, is on the site of an earlier church dating back to 1754. The heritage centre is sited in the heart of Roscommon near the great complex of monuments at Royal Rathcroghan, the birthplace of Percy French, the ancient Cathedral site if Elphin and a host of other notable antiquities.

The centre houses an interpretative Display on Pagan Celtic Society in Pre-Christian Ireland, on the monuments of Rathcroghan and the display also focuses on the epi...
Photo: Royal Tara China Visitor Centre, Galway County
Royal Tara China Visitor Centre
Tara Hall, Mervue, Galway, Galway

Royal Tara has been making fine bone china since 1953 and is located in Galway on the west coast of Ireland.

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Connemara National Park
One Star
Letterfrack, Galway
Covering some 2,957 hectares of scenic mountains, expanses of bogs, heaths, grasslands and woodlands, Connemara National Park is a sight to behold. It's located near Letterfrack in County Galway.
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Photo: Croom Mills Waterwheel And Heritage Centre, Limerick County
Croom Mills Waterwheel And Heritage Centre
Limerick City, Limerick
Croom Mills which is privately owned and managed, is home to an award winning Heritage Centre and fully licensed restaurants, as well as extensive craft and furniture shops, all overlooking the River Maigue. The award winning Visitor Centre, tells the story of grain milling in Ireland, with a 19 minute audio visual presentation and one floor of exhibits. Its shops are stocked with the best of Irish crafts and designs, and unusual gifts from around the world....
Photo: Doctor Douglas Hyde Interpretative Centre, Roscommon County
Doctor Douglas Hyde Interpretative Centre
Frenchpark, Roscommon
Dr. Douglas Hyde was born in Castlerea, Co. Roscommon on 17th January 1860. The family moved to Portahard when his father, Rev. Arthur Hyde, (1819-1905) was appointed rector here in 1867.

Here, as a privileged Anglo-Irish youth, Douglas enjoyed the country life, fishing, hunting and helping out on the farm. From the age of seventeen he began to write prose, poetry and plays in Irish and English. Fearing the imminent demise of the Irish Language and loss of its wealth of oral folkta...
Photo: Donegal Parian China, Donegal County
Donegal Parian China
Ballyshannon, Donegal
Ireland's leading Pottery and Visitor Centre Complex conveniently located in the picturesque County of Donegal....
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Grays Print Museum
49 Main Street, Strabane, Tyrone
Associated with famous Ulster-Americans, including John Dunlap, printer of the American Declaration of Independence. Display of 19th century hand printing presses. Audio-visual. National Trust. Wheelchair access....
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Carrickfergus
Tourist Information Centre, Heritage Plaza, Antrim Street, Carrickfergus, Antrim
Carrickfergus Castle the finest best preserved Norman castle in Ireland, dominates the town. John de Courcy, first Earl of Ulster, built the castle in the late 12th century, and for five centuries thereafter it was the seat of English power in the North. After serving as a prison in the 18th century, the castle was used as a magazine and armoury until 1928. Today life-like models depict stirring events in its 800-year history.

De Courcy also built the parish church of St. Nicholas,...
Photo: The Book of Kells, Dublin County
The Book of Kells
Trinity College, Dublin 2, Dublin
The Book of Kells contains a Latin text of the four gospels richly decorated by Irish monks around the year 800 AD. The greatest Irish work of art to survive from the Middle Ages, it has been in the library of Trinity College Dublin since the 1660s.
The ’Picturing the Word’ exhibit will place it in its historical and cultural context and compares its images and techniques to those in contemporary metalwork, bone, slate, stone and enamels. Much of the exhibition is an analysis of its ani...
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William Clark And Sons Limited Factory Tour
Upperlands, Maghera, Derry
Linen fabrics for high class suiting, canvasses, and interlinings - collars, pockets, waistbands and fronts - for the clothing industry are made here. Beetling machines in operation. The tour passes the dams which used to power the old linen mill and still supply the water for manufacturing processes....
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