Museum. Zabrze (PL) Fagus Factory World Heritage Site. Alfeld/Leine (D) Flame Gasworksmuseum of Ireland. Carrickfergus (UK) Fröndenberg Chain Forge. Fröndenberg (D) Hansa Coking Plant. Dortmund (D) Historic

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

Charles (Carlo) Bianconi was an Italian who transformed passenger transport in Ireland in the decades before the construction of main line railways. He was born at Costa Masnaga in Lombardy, 13 km south-west

opened to the public in 1990. It continues to work and is the only commercially operating windmill in Ireland. The mill is a landmark where the town of Tralee meets the Dingle Peninsula, and visitors are able

Rhineland, the Ottoman Empire and India. Bradshaw’s Descriptive Railway Hand-Book of Great Britain and Ireland , was published in four parts in 1863, and in recent years has been the basis for popular television

found in Germany, the Czech Republic, Austria, Belgium, the Netherlands, Poland, Great Britain and Ireland – all these being countries which have retained their leading position as concerns beer production

to New York in 1845. The company that owned her became bankrupt after she ran ashore in Northern Ireland in 1846. She is now conserved in Bristol. The much larger 32,000 ton SS Great Eastern, built for

linking the railway from Dublin to Sligo at Dromod with the main line of the Great Northern Railway (Ireland) at Belturbet. A branch from Ballinamare to Arigna was opened the following year and extended to

Knockcroghery was the principal clay pipe manufacturing centre in Ireland. The industry was established in the eighteenth century by a Scot called Buckley, and in 1832 between 100 and 500 gross of pipes [...] employed 100 people and exported pipes to Australia and the United States, as well as to all parts of Ireland. Nevertheless trade declined during the 1890s, perhaps due to the increasing popularity of cigarettes

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

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

There are remains of at least eight charcoal-fired blast furnaces in Ireland, most of them built in the seventeenth century to use charcoal from woodlands, which were felled and cleared rather than managed [...] in blast into the second half of the eighteenth century. One of the few coke-fuelled ironworks in Ireland was built in 1852 by a Scottish company at Creevelea, near the town of Dromohair, in Co Leitrim in [...] peat as the fuel. During a further revival from 1896 under the Peat Charcoal Fuel & Iron Company of Ireland just one pig of iron was cast, although the company invested capital in an aerial ropeway to transport

of more than 50 vehicles includes tramcars that operated in Belgium, the Czech Republic, Germany, Ireland, Portugal and the Netherlands.

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

sometimes reckoned to be the world’s first commuter railway. He subsequently built railways in Ireland extending over some 1300 km, including parts of the Dublin-Drogheda, Great Southern & Western and [...] He was a member of the Royal Dublin Society, and one of the founders of the National Gallery of Ireland. A bridge in Belfast completed in 1995 linking the railways to the north with the line south towards

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

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a veterinary practice in Belfast that over the next 20 years became the largest in the island of Ireland. When his young son complained that his tricycle with solid rubber tires was uncomfortable to ride

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 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