Figure 2: The c.60,000 townlands of Ireland visualised in number by map sheet. This process was not without its challenges, local populations playing havoc with the boundary markers, as is ...

Ireland never drank the dregs so deeply again as she had drunk them in the years before the Plantations. She “drank them and sucked them out”. Yes! these are tragic maps, those of Raven’s of ...

How many fairy forts in Ireland? Somewhere between 45,000 and 60,000 is a very rough estimate, but in all probability there ...

Extensive damage has been caused to wildlife and land in Barnesmore Gap and Knockalla due to wildfires, the Director of ...

Please contact: Lilliputs Community Childcare Centre, 5 Strandhaven, Laytown, Co. Meath, Laytown, Ireland ... a very old place-name situated in the south-west corner of Gibblockstown townland ...

“I’ve lived outside of Augher all my life in the townland of Glenageeragh ... I ask him how he knows John, and he answers, “Sure, the whole of Ireland knows that man.” ‘John Cuthbertson’ is just ...

This satellite image of a cloud-free Ireland was selected by NASA for its Worldview Image of the Week on April 4.

(No, it’s not the right to drone on about the good old days. That annoying generational tic started in my fifties.) What gets me out of bed these days is Ireland’s Free Travel Scheme.

In County Meath in eastern Ireland sits the world heritage site of Brú na Bóinne. The late 4th millennium BC megalithic tombs ...

Books include religious scriptures and scribbled jokes, giving glimpse of daily lives of early medieval Irish monks ...

Genetic analysis of human remains within several of the tombs initially seemed to reinforce this. But our latest research has ...

The perseverance of the Irish people in maintaining their language, history and values created a world of oral tradition ...