storage. Restoration was completed in 2006 and it is now reckoned the best-preserved waterworks in Ireland. Exhibitions tell the story of how water was supplied to Cork over three centuries, but the interactive

The award-winning Whitehead Railway Museum, head-quarters of the Railway Preservation Society of Ireland (RPSI), combines the past with the present and offers a unique visitor experience. Visitors will

Museums and Galleries of Northern Ireland. Several of the buildings in the 68-hectare folk museum illustrate vividly the history of traditional textile manufacturing in Ireland. They include a water-powered [...] of linen, lace and embroidery made in the north of Ireland, both by domestic workers and in factories. Traditional arable cultivation in much of Ireland depended on the spade rather than the plough. The [...] following the pattern of Skansen, portraying chiefly the social life of the northern counties of Ireland in the early twentieth century. It was established in 1958 and opened in 1964 as the Ulster Folk

buses, a sailing cargo ship built in Ireland in 1893 and passenger trams operated by horse, steam and electricity. The museum’s railway collection is the largest in Ireland - housed in a new purpose-built structure [...] The Transport Museum (part of the National Museums of Northern Ireland) is sited in parkland off the A2 road between Belfast and Bangor. It aims to show the historical development of transport in social

Large-scale commercial distilling of spirits in Ireland is now confined to two plants (see Midleton, Bush Mills) but an outstanding example of an eighteenth century pot still whiskey distillery was preserved [...] preserved in 1983 at Kilbeggan in the centre of Ireland. The distillery was licensed in 1757, taking both water and power from the Brusna River. It was rebuilt in the nineteenth century after it was acquired

the former station in Donegal in 1995. It tells the story of the narrow gauge lines in north-west Ireland through graphic panels and models, and holds a substantial collection of digitised photographs. Outside

from Manchester for a brewery at Kilkenny and a small vertical engine thought to have been built in Ireland that was used at a brewery in West Cork. There are also models including one of a 4-4-0 locomotive

career as an Atlantic passenger line was cut short in 1846 when she ran aground at Dundrum Bay in Ireland. While her hull suffered relatively little damage her engines were ruined, and her owners became

engineering superhero, it also dramatically reduced the time and dangers involved on the journey from Ireland via Holyhead to London. Along with Telford’s other improvements to the London to Holyhead Road, the [...] railway from London to Holyhead but also a major European roadway, linking Continental Europe to Ireland. The full history of the bridges and several artefacts can be seen at the Menai Heritage museum

Limerick, was built in 1925-9 at the same time as the national grid in Ireland. It was the policy of what was then the Free State to make Ireland independent of British sources of energy. The station was built [...] largest hydro-electric generating plant in the world, and was capable of supplying the whole of Ireland. It is some measure of the development of the Irish economy that in 2000 its 85 MW output supplied

The Flying Boat Museum at Foynes near the mouth of the River Shannon in western Ireland highlights a short but significant period in the history of commercial and military aviation. Foynes was a new town

world’s largest market for butter for much of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries when butter was Ireland’s most important food export. The Cork Butter Museum was established in 1985 in the former wholesale

In the 1860s there were 73 collieries in Ireland. Their output in 1854 was nearly 150,000 tons, less than one per cent of United Kingdom production, most of which was used near the pitheads for domestic [...] be called New Birmingham, but he lacked capital and his plans were not realised. The Mining Co of Ireland, formed in 1824, established a mine at nearby Mardyke where they built a Cornish engine, whose engine

Leslie and John Travers. The company became one of the largest industrial enterprises in 19th-century Ireland, and employed more than 500 people in the 1850s. The works closed in 1903 but the extensive remains

operates on the central part of the canal from Robertstown. The canal is managed by Waterways Ireland, an all-Ireland agency set up in 1999 under the Good Friday Agreement. [...] The Grand Canal is Ireland’s most notable artificial navigation and has the most substantial surviving monuments relating to passenger traffic by water of any canal in Europe. The canal was first projected

interprets and makes accessible the material evidence of the printing crafts and associated skills in Ireland since the introduction of printing from moveable type in the sixteenth century. It was opened in

distance Town Gas Works Trail to see the other remaining sites in Biggar Scotland, "Flame" in Northern Ireland and at Dunedin, New Zealand. The former British Dominions and Colonies are rich in the remains of

The Johnstown Castle Estate near the town of Wexford on the east coast of Ireland was gifted to the Irish nation in 1945 and government departments occupy parts of the nineteenth century Gothic revival [...] blacksmiths have been reconstructed. One section shows how sugar beet was farmed and processed in Ireland, and another displays bicycles, including those made by the Pierce company of Wexford who diversified

The Copper Coast Geopark is located on the south coast of Ireland between the towns of Tramore and Dungarvan, and extends 25 km from Kilfarrasy in the east to Stradballey in the west. A tourism group

Suburban Racecourse or the Jones Road Sportsground, and was used by the GAA from its foundation. All-Ireland finals in hurling and Irish football were played there from 1895. In 1908 one of its members, a [...] Auxiliaries employed by the British government to suppress the movement for self-government in Ireland, machine-gunned and killed 12 spectators at a football game between Dublin and Tipperary football [...] terracing for standing spectators. The largest recorded attendance at Croke Park was 90,556 for the All-Ireland football final between Offaly and Down football in 1961. The introduction of more seating has reduced