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Avondale House |
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Avondale House
designed in 1777 by the famous English
architect James Wyatt, is best known as
the home of Charles Stewart Parnell, the
great nationalist and advocate of land
rights for Irish peasants.
It was the original owner of the house,
the barrister Samuel Hayes, who planted
many of the trees still standing in the
550 acre estate,
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Baltinglass Passage
Tombs & Hill Fort |
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The site comprises remains of 3 small
passage-tombs built at different times
and partly-overlying each other, plus
two single-chambered tombs. In the
circular chamber of the latest
passage-tomb (III) is a large stone
basin decorated with a double-armed
cross within a cartouche. Some of the
roofstones of its narrow passage
survive. There is a beehive-shaped
chamber which the excavator considered
contemporary with Tomb I (largely
overlaid by Tomb II, a central chamber
surrounded by 5 side-chambers, whose
gallery is overlaid by Tomb III), and a
ruined kist which is at least as recent
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Glendalough Round
Tower & Monastic Site, Co Wicklow |
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The Glendalough Round Tower is probably
the finest surviving example in Ireland.
Over 40 metres in height and with a
circumference of 16 metres, access is
through a doorway 3.5 metres above
ground. Built for the dual purposes of
serving as a watch-tower and place of
refuge during the period of the Viking
invasions, the tower was restored in
1876. Beyond St.
Mary’s Church is the Priest’s House, a
12th Century building in Romanesque
style, with an interesting carving of a
much earlier date on the lintel of the
doorway. Just beyond the Priest's House
is a large granite cross (sixth or
seventh century) and the "Cathedral",
the largest church on the site, with a
nave, chancel and sacristy (11th and
12th C), and St Kevin's Church. St
Kevin’s Church is commonly known as St
Kevin's Kitchen. This is a
barrel-vaulted oratory of hard mica
schist with a steeply pitched roof and a
round tower belfry (12th C). Approx 200m
east of the Church of the Rock is a
cavity in the cliff which is known as St
Kevin's Bed or Hermitage. |
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Glenart Castle |
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Glenart Castle was originally built
around 1750 and was formerly the Irish
Residence of the Earl of Carysfort.
A historic castle estate set amid
63 acres of ground and woodland.
Around 2 km from Arkiow on the road to
Woodenbridge in the picturesque Avoca
Valley.
Glenart Estate goes back to the
Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland which
began in 1169. Between 1177 and 1185
large quantities of land were granted by
Prince John acting on behalf of his
father King Henry II to Theobald Walter
from whom were descended the Butler
Family and the Earls of Ormonde. The
Butlers held their possession in this
area for the next 500 years. |
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Woodbrook House, Bray |
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First built in the 1770s Woodbrook was
substantially reconstructed by the
Blacker family after being damaged in
the rebellion of 1798.It is a spacious
and welcoming large Georgian house in
its own parkland under the Blackstairs
Mountains. It has an unusually big
drawing room and a spectacular spiral
“flying” staircase, the only one of its
kind in Ireland. |
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Carnew Castle, Co Wicklow
Castleruddery Stone Circle & Motte This rather
untidy circle which was once known as the Druidical Circle is about 30
metres in diameter. Consisting of around forty stones, the circle has
two enormous white quartz portal stones at the entrance, each weighing
at least 15 tons. The circle itself is surrounded by an earthen bank
around 1.2 metres high.
Castletimon Ogham Stone Known locally
as the Giants Stone Castletimon Ogham Stone is lying in a niche at the
side of the road. The stone measures 1.5 metres by 0.48 wide and 0.25
metres thick. Dating between 350-550 AD the stone was first discovered
in 1854.
Castle Howard, Avoca,
Co Wicklow. A romantic
early 19th century castle rising from a
wooded hilltop above the Meeting of the
Waters, Castle Howard, near Avoca, Co
Wicklow.
Latitude : 52.884
Longitude : -6.218
Charleville House,
Enniskerry, Co Wicklow Detached
nine-bay two-storey Palladian style mansion, built in 1797 to designs by
Whitmore Davis, with three-storey breakfront. The walls are faced in
ashlar with the ground floor level of the breakfront rusticated and the
pediment carried on four engaged Ionic columns. The roof is hidden by a
parapet. The entrance is topped with a pediment and the windows are a
mixture of flat and semi-circular headed. The house is set within an
extensive demesne. Duganstown Castle
Kiltimon House,
Newtownmountkennedy
Moylisha "Labbansighe" Wedge Tomb this
monument is unusual in that its main chamber widens towards the back,
together with the outer walling, so that the wedge shape is reversed.
The usual portico or antechamber is demarcated by a septal slab. This
tomb resembles many in the North of the island. A mould for a bronze
spear-head was found in the tomb, suggesting a date of about 100 B.C.,
but it may be even earlier than that.

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