heritage centres ireland

Discover Cobh's unique origins, it's history and legacy at the Queenstown Story - a multi media permanent exhibition at the restored Victorian Cobh Railway Station. The Titanic is one of the many liners and ships which has visited the historic port town of Cobh - Cobh was formerly known as Queenstown, named after Queen Victoria .

From 1845 - 1960 over 2.5 million adults and children emigrated from Ireland via Cobh on Coffin ships, early steamers and finally on the great ocean liners....

This museum traces the steps of Irish farming methods, from the acient ways of cultaviating the land to the introduction of the farm tractor. It also show cases the different machinery and afterfacts that aided with the development of farming in 19th century Ireland.  ...

Welcome to the Dunlewey lakeside centre. With a wide range of facilities for all the family, the centre provides a facinating insite into life in the area during the middle of the century....

King House, built by Sir Henry King about 1730 is a house of unique architectural and historical importance.

Situated on the Boyle River, within the town of Boyle, it occupies land formerly controlled by the MacDermot Clan and is the most important provincial town house in Ireland.

Home to the Connaught Rangers regiment from 1788 and the Irish Army since then, recent extensive restoration has brought King House back to its former glory.

With the aid of exciting special...

Fore, approximately 15 miles from Mullingar has the most extensive Benedictine remains in Ireland. It is the site of the ruins of St. Fechin's Monastery and was a Benedictine Priory until 1539 when it was suppressed by Henry VIII.

The present building belongs in the main to the 15th century. There are nine ancient crosses within a radius of a mile from the village. Near the foot of Ben Fore (713 feet) is a large moat, reputed to be an early Anglo-Norman Fortification. There are a...

Ireland's only basketry museum-exhibition and audio visual presentation. Craft work shop, Craft shop and coffee shop....

A fine example of our industrial heritage in this preserved coal-fired gasworks which was built in 1855 to light the town's street lamps. An audio visual presentation tells the history of the plant along with an exhibition of machinery and a huge array of gas powered equipment. Wheelchair access....

The Giant's Causeway, Northern Ireland's premier attraction, has for centuries astounded people from all over the world with the splendid sight of it's 38,000 stone columns, mostly hexagonal, formed millions of years ago by the cooling of molten lava, although legends say that the Causeway was created by the Irish Giant Finn McCool as a crossing to Scotland.

No journey to the Giant's Causeway is complete without a visit to Moyle District Council's Award winning Visitor's Centre. Facili...

The Park offers the visitor a varied and fascinating introduction to different aspects of Corks rich heritage ranging from the story of the Pike family (who lived on the estate from 1820 to 1921), local ecology, Corks Archaeological Heritage, Corks Maritime Heritage, the History of Corks Fire Service to the story of Corks Transport.

A gallery of archive photographic records 1) the development of train, tram and bus services in the pioneering decades of the development of public tra...