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Avondale House
Avondale House Wicklow 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,
 

Baltinglass Passage Tombs & Hill Fort
Baltinglass Tombs & Hill Fort, Co Wicklow 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 as Tomb III.

Glendalough Round Tower & Monastic Site, Co Wicklow
Glendalough Monastic Site 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.

Glenart Castle
Glenart Castle, Co Wicklow 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.

Woodbrook House, Bray
Woodbrook House, Bray 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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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.

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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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