monuments ireland

The centre of the walled city the Diamond was once occupied by the Town Hall but since 1927 it has been the site of the War Memorial. The bronze statues and portland stone which stand 40ft high and 27ft wide are in memeory of those from Derry who fought and lost their lives during World War 1 1914-1918. Each year the November Poppy Day Parade commemorates the war heroes and the memeory of all who last thier lives. Open All Year....

Clonakilty was the birthplace of Michael Collins and Henry Ford. The Michael Collins centre at Woodfield is a National Monument . Clonakilty Museum contains a Collins Exhibition there is also a life-size staute of him in the centre of the town in Emmet Square....

A Triumphal Arch was erected here in 1782 to commemorate the local volunteers. The structure is still in good condition although the house is now gone....

Outside the graveyard of the seventeenth century parish church, a blue plaque commemorates the poet Charles Wolfe (1791-1823) who was curate of Donaghmore 1818-21. His famous lines on 'The Burial of Sir John Moors' were published in the Newry Telegraph in 1817....

Governor George Walker Memorial Garden located on Society Street next to the Apprentice Boys Memorial Hall is a monument to the Governor of Derry during the Siege of 1689. The 9 foot statue originally stood on an 80 foot high pillar at the Royal Bastion on Mall Wall from 1832 to 1973 when the pillar was destroyed by a bomb. The inscription perpetuates the memory of Reverend George Walker for his bravery throughout the Siege.

Admission : Free

Location : Off Bishop...

The Diamond in Donegal Square contains an obelisk, which is a memorial to the Four Masters.


Also situated here are the premises of Magee & Co., established in 1866. The company is synomymous with the great handweaving tradition for which Donegal is famous....

This statue by stands in the John Fitzgerald Kennedy Memorial Park, Eyre Square. It commemorates Padraic O'Conaire (1882 - 1928), a pioneer in the Irish Literary Revival in this century.

O'Conaire and Patrick Pearse are regarded as being the two most important Irish language short story-writers during the first decades of the 20th century....

This well known monument stands at Arboe Point, 'the Hill of the Cow', on the west shore of Lough Neagh. It is a particularly fine specimen and belongs to a late period in the development of the sculptured free-standing ringed crosses. In its present form it is a reconstruction, the upper part having fallen in 1846, and now stands 18 feet high. The carved details depict biblical scenes some of which are self evident - Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes, the Crucifixion, David and Goliath, the Last...

The Fountain in Waterloo Place was the site chosen to place a series of statues depicting a typical farewell scene of families who were about to embark on a journey to America or Australia in search of their fortune or to begin a new and better life in the lands of opportunity. Derry and Cork were the most important ports for emigration of Irish citizens after the Great Famine in Ireland. Today great efforts are made to retrace family trees and Derry through the local Genealogy centre of...

Despite its somewhat prosaic surroundings and the modern iron grating to fend off grazing sheep, this unique and beautifully decorated monolith is one of the great treasures of Celtic La Tene art in Europe. The style of the carving, in its Irish context, is assignable to the last three centuries BC.

The Turoe Stone is a domed granite boulder a little over 3 feet high, artificially shaped and decorated by a technique known as picking, which sets the design out in relief against the...