Visit www.arignaminingexperience.ie to book your tour now! Arigna Mining Experience is a visitor centre and underground tour in Co. Roscommon celebrating the heritage of coal and Iron Ore mining in Ireland, dating from the 1700s up to the 1990s. The Arigna Mining Experience will certainly appeal to those looking for a day out with a difference! The visitor centre
Read moreSituated on the extreme tip of the Hook Penninsula in Wexford, Hook Lighthouse served as a beacon through centuries of maritime history for traffic entering to Waterford harbour. The light house that exists today was first built over 800 years ago, we’ll say that again….yes 800 years! It is renowned as the oldest intact operational light house in the world!
Read moreDuncannon Fort is an important sixteenth century coastal bastioned fort situated on a rocky promontory which contains earlier archaeological remains in the form of a fifteenth century castle with associated curtain wall and towers and, probably, an earlier prehistoric promontory fort. The fort is one of only three bastioned forts built in County Wexford and the only one which is
Read moreGlendalough is located just outside the village of Laragh in Wicklow. Renowned as a place of natural beauty, the ‘Glen of the two Lakes’ was formed during the Ice Age and is named after the 2 brown, calm lakes which appear in the Lower area and Upper area of the Valley. The lakes are home to numerous examples of wildlife
Read moreBattle of the Boyne is commemorated in this beautiful visitor centre location near the site of the Battle in Drogheda. Stroll through historical exhibitions in Oldbridge House and learn how the battle was fought on that fateful day in 1690 between King James and King William. At stake were the British throne, French Dominance in Europe and religious power in
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