Curious Ireland

07/01/2026

Cool 3d modelling of The Walled City

A structure-from-motion photogrammetry model of Derry developed by Visualising Heritage as part of the project ‘Killmallock - Derry - Bradford: Twinning Irish Walled Towns and Cities of Culture’. The project was funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council (AH/Y007409/1) as part....

22/12/2025

It's that time of year again...
Bru na Boinne, Newgrange. County Meath 2700BC - CURIOUS IRELAND https://share.google/J9JyQRSjhdpJOb5MO

22/12/2025

15/12/2025

Article from BBC 2023. Could it be true?🎅🙏

Just a 20-minute drive south from the town of Kilkenny, Ireland, an abandoned medieval village is rumoured to harbour a mysterious Christmas legend.

09/12/2025

Tacumshane Windmill, Tacumshane. County Wexford 1852.

The last windmill to be in commercial use in Ireland.

Tacumshane Windmill, Tacumshane. County Wexford 1852 - CURIOUS IRELAND https://share.google/eBtuvCgv9ZLt98l4C

05/12/2025

Winter is coming again! So for any diehard fans check out...
Game of Thrones Studio Tour https://share.google/6fdOErngkcLqiczXa

27/11/2025

Glenveagh National Park, Donegal

22/11/2025

Carlow Castle was built in 1213 by William Marshall on a strategic site close to the River Barrow. In 1361 it was strengthened when it became the headquarters of the Exchequer of Ireland when it was moved here from Dublin. The castle was attacked and withstood many attempted assaults in its history but its great ‘low point’ came not through war but by a physician named Middleton. Middleton attempted to convert the castle into a lunatic asylum in 1814 and when he decided to diminish the thickness of the walls by using explosives. He, however, made a gross miscalculation and ended up blowing most of the castle to pieces. All that remained were the 2 towers and a bit of the original wall. This is a great advertisement on how not to run an asylum.

Carlow Castle, Carlow Town. County Carlow 1213 - CURIOUS IRELAND https://share.google/k2MZzzJ4Xmbk9BrkK

15/11/2025

The Wellington Testimonial stands over 200 feet high in Dublin’s Phoenix Park making it Europe’s tallest obelisk. It was built between 1817 and 1861 to commemorate the victories of Arthur Wellesley, the 1st Duke of Wellington. It has four bronze plaques, one on each side cast from cannons captured at the battle of Waterloo. Wellington was born in 1769 in Mornington House in Dublin in what is now The Merrion Hotel. He was also known as ‘The Iron Duke’ and is more often remembered as a soldier rather than as a politician. He, however, became Prime Minister during the reign of George IV after being Commander in Chief of the British Army. As Prime Minister, Wellington was very conservative, yet one of his first achievements was overseeing Catholic emancipation in 1829. This granted almost full civil rights to Catholics in the United Kingdom. The ‘Iron Duke’ died in September 1852 after a series of seizures. After lying in state in London, he was buried in St Paul’s Cathedral.

https://curiousireland.ie/the-wellington-testimonial/

13/11/2025

RTE news : Ireland voted Europe's top island spot in Wanderlust Awards 2025

http://www.rte.ie/lifestyle/travel/2025/1112/1543534-ireland-voted-europes-top-island-spot-in-wanderlust-awards-2025/

09/11/2025

The original lighthouse at Poolbeg on Dublin's southside of the Liffey was built in 1768. This was redesigned into its present form in 1820 and was painted red to indicate ‘port side’ for ships entering Dublin Bay and the North Bull Lighthouse (on the other side of the bay) is painted green to indicate ‘starboard’. The Great South Wall extends nearly four miles out into Dublin Bay from Ringsend. It was the world’s longest sea wall at the time of its construction and still remains one of the longest in Europe. Navigation for sea vessels entering Dublin Bay and into the River Liffey has always been difficult and dangerous due to sandbanks and silting. In 1717 a decision was made to build a safe shipping lane with the help of a wall and so the first oak piles were driven in the boulder clay for what was to become the ‘South Bull Wall’. By 1795 the wall was completed with massive granite blocks brought from the quarries on Dalkey Hill. The base was 32 feet thick tapering to 28 feet at the top. Ordnance Survey Ireland also measured the low water mark of the spring tide on the 8th April 1837 and used this point as the standard height for all its maps until 1958.

The Poolbeg Lighthouse, Great South Wall. Dublin City 1820 - CURIOUS IRELAND https://share.google/YpSimkZNp8UDKWAwR

04/11/2025

During World War 2, although Ireland was neutral, members of the German Luftwaffe were killed over our air space due to foul weather, damage in action or simply running out of fuel. In 1959 The German war graves commission constructed this cemetery to remember these souls in what was once a granite quarry for the nearby military barracks. It contains 134 bodies of which 53 have identities and 28 will never be known. The only person with an individual memorial is Dr. Hermann Gortz, a spy, who took his own life to avoid arrest. He was buried in Deansgrange Cemetry with a full sw****ka flag but was exhumed discretely and re-interred to a grave in Glencree. German Remembrance Day is commemorated here each November and there is a poem at the entrance by Professor Stan O’Brien who was a supporter of the Irish German Society. A large Celtic cross now overlooks the grounds and there is also a mosaic called the ‘Hall of Honour’ designed by Berlze.

The German Military Cemetery, Glencree. County Wicklow 1961 - CURIOUS IRELAND https://share.google/TcECduUHjYJBmXPp3