Laois travels PAST: Ireland’s county LAOIS in the 1846 Parliamentary Gazetteer
An inland county of the province of Leinster, is bounded, on the north, by Offaly; on…
An inland county of the province of Leinster, is bounded, on the north, by Offaly; on…
KILDARE, a county of the province of Leinster, is bounded, on the north, by Meath and…
A maritime county in the province of Munster. It is bounded, on the north, by…
A maritime county of the province of Connacht, is bounded, on the north, by Mayo;…
An inland county in the province of Ulster. It is bounded, on the north, by…
A maritime county in the province of Leinster. It is bounded, on the north, by…
County DownA maritime county of Ulster, the most southerly in that province, bounded on the…
A maritime county of Ulster, the most northerly in Ireland, bounded on the north and…
A maritime county in the province of Ulster. It is bounded, on the north, by…
A maritime county of Ireland, in the province of Munster, is bounded, on the north,…
A maritime county of the province of Leinster, is bounded, on the north, by Laois…
A maritime county of the province of Leinster, is bounded, on the north, by Cavan,…
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“No tree to hang a man, no water to drown a man, no soil to…
“Come back Paddy Reilly to Ballyjamesduff” – From the song “Come Back Paddy Reilly to…
“Follow me to wear the red, yellow, and green/ Far over the sea/ Follow me…
“Armagh’s orchards, heavy with fruit, are a kind of Eden, a place where the earth…
“There is not in the wide world a valley so sweet/ As that vale in…
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“I am a Westmeath bachelor and me age is 63/ I don’t intend to marry…
“The morn was breaking bright and fair/ The lark sang in the sky/ When the…
“By night and by day I ever ever pray/ While lonely my life flows on/…
“I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, / And a small cabin…
“By the Shannon’s rippling waters/ It′s my county of renown/ But most of all I…
“Esto Fidelis” (Be Faithful) — The official motto of Offaly. “Uibh Fhaile how I love you…
“O Monaghan hills, you have made me the sort of man I am, / A…
“F?ágaim le huacht é go n-éiríonn mo chroí-se / Mar a éiríonn an ghaoth, nó…
“Sweet Auburn, loveliest village of the plain, / Where health and plenty cheered the labouring…
Limerick You’re My Lady/ your Shannon waters tears of joy that flows/ the beauty that…
“Where the wandering water gushes, / From the hills above Glen-Car, / In pools among…
Possession of Dunamase Rock shuttled back and forth with the ebb and flow of war…
“And straight I will repair / To the Curragh of Kildare / For it’s there…
“There are only two real kingdoms: the Kingdom of God and the Kingdom of Kerry.”…
“You will sit and watch the moonrise over Claddagh / And watch the barefoot gossoons…
“Half the year Lough Erne is in Fermanagh, and for the other half Fermanagh is…
“Raised on songs and stories, heroes of renown, the passing tales and glories thagt once…
“”From Bantry Bay up to Derry Quay / And from Galway to Dublin town, like…
“Oh Donegal, the pride of all, My heart still turns to thee. My cottage home…
“In the nineteen-forties, when I was the eldest child of an ever-growing family in rural…
“Viking bones beneath the cobblestones, a tower watching like a tired sentinel, and me, scribbling…