Ireland

Dublin, Ireland

Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin

Dublin, Ireland

Natural History building, National Museum of Ireland

Dublin's "Dead Zoo" serves as a window to Victorian museum design

Since 1857, visitors to the Natural History building of Dublin’s National Museum of Ireland can see not only animals and minerals of Ireland but, as some say, a museum of a museum. Containing... »

Natural History | Edited by bradenh83 and Dylan

Rye Water, Ireland

The Wonderful Barn

Corkscrew-shaped barn in Ireland

Barns tend to be thought of as big, red, wooden and filled with hay and farming tools. Or at least that seems to be the American conception of the barn. In Ireland the Wonderful barn fulfills none... »

Architectural Oddities | Edited by Nathan_Risinger and Nicholas Jackson

Cill Dara, Ireland

Conolly's Folly

Obelisks and stone pineapples in the Irish countryside

Conolly’s Folly located in County Kildare, Ireland, is unique for a variety of reasons. It is not every day that you come across a large stone structure of no particular religious association... »

Eccentric Homes | Edited by Nathan_Risinger, Nicholas Jackson and others

Birr, Ireland

Leviathan of Parsonstown

Behemoth, cannon-like telescope operated by generations of Irish earls

The real measure of a telescope's power is not how greatly it can magnify a distant object, but what portion of that object's light the instrument actually collects. It's easy if you think of... »

Inspired Inventions, Instruments of Science, Retro-Tech | Edited by Trevor, wythe and 2 others

Lahardane, Ireland

Addergoole Titanic Monument

This small Irish village suffered the greatest loss of life when the Titanic sank

When the RMS Titanic sank in the icy Atlantic ocean on 15 April 1912, some 1,517 people died. Many were from London, New York or other cosmopolitan cities, but the loss was felt particularly hard... »

Unusual Monuments | Edited by Mylesnag and Annetta

County Galway, Ireland

The Calendar Sundial

Modern sundial uses ancient methods to tell time and date perfectly

The Calendar Sundial in Galway, Ireland tells both the time of day and the month of the year. Located in Brigit's Garden, a local park, the Calendar Sundial, built in 2006, is the biggest in... »

Astounding Timepieces | Edited by Mylesnag, Dylan and 2 others

Dublin, Ireland

St. Michan's Mummies

An Irish church where you can shake hands with an 800 year old mummy

Down a set of dimly lit narrow stone steps, in a vault underneath the church, lay dozens of coffins, and one mummy ready to shake your hand. The mummies in the basement of St. Michan's church in... »

Memento Mori, Mummies, Catacombs, Crypts, & Cemeteries, Curious Places of Worship | Edited by CPilgrim and Annetta

Anaglog Cross, Ireland

Jumping wall of Kildemock

A stone wall that mysteriously moved three feet from its foundation

The jumping wall of Kildemock is a strange church ruin in the townland of Millockstown, a mile and a half south of Ardee. A plaque at the site reads: “This wall by its pitch, tilt and position... »

Optical Oddities, Curious Places of Worship, Incredible Ruins | Edited by Annetta

Newgrange, Ireland

Newgrange

The ancient druidic passage tomb that keeps perfect time

Newgrange is one of a number of ancient tombs in the Boyne Valley in the Irish county of Meath, north of Dublin. Built circa 3200 BC, it predates Stonehenge and the Pyramids of Giza. A passage... »

Catacombs, Crypts, & Cemeteries, Astounding Timepieces, Lost Tribes, Long Now Locations, Curious Places of Worship, Incredible Ruins | Edited by cha, Kwekubo and others