Jealous Wall: Ireland’s Largest Folly
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 17, 2017
The Belvedere House and Gardens located on the shores of Lough Ennell near Mullingar, County Westmeath in Ireland, contains several architec...
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Ireland’s Famine Follies
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 4, 2017
In the grounds of the Castletown Estate, near the Irish town of Maynooth, is a large stone structure comprising of interlocking arches, ador...
Leviathan of Parsonstown
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 8, 2016
In 1845, William Parsons, an Irish nobleman and the third Earl of Rosse, constructed a large telescope with an enormous 6-feet wide mirror o...
Corlea Trackway: A 2,000-Year-Old Wooden Road in Ireland
Kaushik Patowary
May 6, 2016
Long ago, a large part of north-western Europe, particularly Ireland and Great Britain, were covered in bogs. These soggy wetlands, composed...
The Stone Walls of Ireland
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 29, 2015
Travelling across rural Ireland from the east to the west, one thing that arouses curiosity among many first time visitors is the hundreds o...
Kiss The Blarney Stone
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 16, 2014
Near the village of Blarney, in Ireland, about 8 km north-west of the small city of Cork, lies the Blarney Castle. At the top of the castle ...
Rockall – An Isolated Rocky Islet Claimed by Four Nations
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 13, 2014
Rockall is a very small, unremarkable and uninhabited rocky island located around 480 km off the west coast of mainland Scotland. At just ov...
The Wonderful Barn in Ireland
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 17, 2014
The Wonderful Barn is a corkscrew-shaped barn located on the edge of Castletown House Estate of the Conolly family, on the borders of Leixli...
Dun Briste, an Impressive Sea Stack at Downpatrick Head
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 24, 2014
About 5 km north of the village of Ballycastle in Mayo county near the Irish coast stands a striking headland called Downpatrick Head. Tower...
The Laxey Wheel: World's Largest Working Waterwheel
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 22, 2013
The Laxey Wheel is a large waterwheel located in the village of Laxey in the Isle of Man, a tiny island in the Irish Sea between the islands...
Loughareema–The Lake That Randomly Vanishes
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 5, 2012
Loughareema, also known as the Vanishing Lake, is located on the coast road, just a few miles from the seaside town of Ballycastle in Irelan...
Skellig Michael and the Ancient Monastery in the Middle of the Ocean
Kaushik Patowary
May 26, 2012
Skellig Michael, which means Michael's rock in Irish language, also known as Great Skellig, is a steep rocky island in the Atlantic Ocea...
The Dark Hedges in Ireland
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 19, 2012
The Dark Hedges is a unique stretch of the Bregagh Road near Armoy, in Ireland, that looks like something from a Tim Burton movie. Over the ...
Curious Rock Formation of Giant's Causeway in Ireland
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 24, 2010
The Giant's Causeway in northeast coast of Northern Ireland, is an area of about 40,000 interlocking basalt columns, the result of an an...
The Megaliths of Great Britain
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 29, 2010
A megalithic monument, in archaeology, is a construction involving one or several roughly hewn stone slabs of great size; it is usually of p...
