SEVEN WONDERS OF

IRELAND

By Jhonny Barreto

Cliffs Of Moher

◦ The Cliffs rise to 702 feet (214 m) at their highest point and range for 8 kms (5 miles) over the Atlantic ocean. The sheer scale and dramatic impact of the cliffs never ceases to amaze and delight in equal measure.

◦ The Cliffs are a special protected area (SPA) for seabirds with over 20 species represented. We welcome over 30,000 breeding pairs annually including guillemots, razorbills, kittiwakes, peregrine falcons and the popular cute puffins. These Ireland Cliffs are also home to many rare flora including Cat’s Eat and Sea Pink.

Cliffs Of Moher

◦ The Spanish Armada set sail in 1588 as part

of a planned invasion of England. After an

unsuccessful mission, the Spanish fleet

commanded by the Duke of Medina Sidonia,

sailed North around Scotland and wide

around Ireland to return home to Spain –

but was decimated by storms en route.

The Burren

◦ The Park land was bought by the Government for nature conservation and public access. It contains examples of all the major habitats within the Burren: Limestone Pavement, Calcareous Grassland, Hazel scrub, Ash/Hazel Woodland, Turloughs, Lakes, Petrifying Springs, Cliffs and Fen.

◦ The word “Burren” comes from an Irish word “Boíreann” meaning a rocky place. This is an extremely appropriate name when you consider the lack of soil cover and the extent of exposed Limestone Pavement. However it has been referred to in the past as “Fertile rock” due to the mixture of nutrient rich herb and floral species.

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BurrenThe Burren is renowned for

its remarkable assemblage of

plants and animals, and over

70% of Ireland's species of

flowers are found there. The

region supports Arctic–alpine

and Mediterranean Basin

plants side-by-side, due to the

unusual environment.

The Giant

Causeway

The Giant's Causeway is an area

of about 40,000 interlocking

basalt columns, the result of an

ancient volcanic fissure eruption.

It is located in County Antrim on

the north coast of Northern

Ireland, about three miles

northeast of the town of

Bushmills.

Giant Causeway• The Giant’s Causeway is a natural rock

formation. It is located on the northeast coast of Northern Ireland, in the county of Antrim, a few miles from the town of Bushmills.

• It is the most popular tourist attraction in Northern Ireland and was voted as the 4th best natural wonder in the UK. In 1986, UNESCO declared the rock formation a World Heritage Site, the only one in Northern Ireland.

• The formation consists of about 40,000 interlocking basalt columns, most of which are hexagonal. The columns form huge stepping stones, some as high as 39 feet, which slope down to the sea.

Glendalough

Glendalough is a glacial valley in

County Wicklow, Ireland,

renowned for an Early Medieval

monastic settlement founded in

the 6th century by St Kevin.

From 1825 to 1957, the head of

the Glendalough Valley was the

site of a galena lead mine.

Glendalough

The Glendalough Valley is

located in the Wicklow

Mountains National Park and has

many attractions to entice,

entertain and enthral visitors,

from its world famous Monastic

Site with Round Tower to its

scenic lakes and valleys, as well as

a selection of walks and trails in

the area including The Wicklow

Way.

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The CurraghThe Curragh is a flat open plain of

almost 2,000 hectares of common land

in Newbridge, County Kildare. This

area is well known for Irish horse

breeding and training. The Irish

National Stud is located on the edge of

Kildare town, beside the famous

Japanese Gardens.The Curragh is a flat

open plain of almost 2,000 hectares of

common land in Newbridge, County

Kildare. This area is well known for

Irish horse breeding and training. The

Irish National Stud is located on the

edge of Kildare town, beside the

famous Japanese Gardens.

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The CurraghUsed as a meeting site during Pre-

Christian societies, the Curragh is

shrouded in a mist of mythology. The

hill north of the Curragh is called the

Hill of Allen (Almhain) and is the

meeting place of the mythical Fianna.

Legend has it that in about 480 AD,

when St Brigid became intent on

founding a monastery in Kildare town,

she asked the High King of Leinster for

the land on which to build it. When he

granted her as much land as her cloak

would cover, she then placed her cloak

on the ground to cover the entire

Curragh plain.

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General post

officeThe front, which extends 67.1 metres (220 ft), has an Ionic portico (24.4 metres (80 ft) wide), of six fluted Ionic columns, 137.16 centimetres (54 inches) in diameter. The frieze of the entablature is highly enriched, and in the tympanum of the pediment were the royal arms until removed following restoration in the 1920s. On the acroteria of the pediment are three statues by John Smyth:[5] when facing the building Mercury on the left, with his Caduceus and purse; Fidelity on the right, with a hound at her feet and a key held in her right hand (due to these features it is argued[by whom?] that the statue is in fact of Hecate); and Hibernia in the centre, resting on her spear and holding a harp. The entablature, with the exception of the architrave, is continued along the rest of the front; the frieze, however, is not decorated over the portico. A balustrade surmounts the cornice of the building, which is 15.2 metres (50 ft) from the ground.

General Post Office

◦ he General Post Office in Ireland was first located in High Street in Dublin moving to Fishamble Street in 1689, to Sycamore Alley in 1709 and then in 1755 to Bardin's Chocolate House on the site where the Commercial Buildings used to be (now the Central Bank building) off Dame Street.[9][4] It was afterwards removed to a larger house opposite the Bank of Ireland building on College Green. On 6 January 1818, the new post-office in Sackville Street (now O'Connell Street) was opened for business.[10]

◦ During the Easter Rising of 1916, the GPO served as the headquarters of the uprising's leaders. It was from outside this building on the 24th of April 1916, that Patrick Pearse read out the Proclamation of the Irish Republic.[11]

The building was destroyed by fire in the course of the rebellion, save for the granite facade, and not rebuilt until 1929, by the Irish Free State government. An original copy of the Proclamation of the Irish Republic was displayed in the museum at the GPO. The museum was closed at the end of May 2015 and replaced by a new visitor centre to commemorate the 1916 Rising, 'GPO Witness History', in March 2016.[12] The building has remained a symbol of Irish nationalism. In commemoration of the Rising, a statue depicting the death of the mythical hero Cúchulainn sculpted by Oliver Sheppard in 1911 was sited at the command post in the centre of the GPO main hall and is now housed in the front of the building. The statue was featured on the Irish ten shilling coin of 1966, marking the fiftieth anniversary of the Rising. Despite its fame as an iconic place of Irish freedom, ground rent for the GPO continued to be paid to English and American landlords until the 1980s

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Glasnevin ◦ The first cemetery opened in Goldenbridge in 1828. This was followed four years later by Glasnevin Cemetery which evolved to become the Ireland's national cemetery which now covers an area of 124 acres with over 1.5 million people laid to rest within its walls. The cemetery has been beautifully restored and sympathetically designed to enhance the natural beauty of Ireland's largest cemetery. Throughout the late 19th

and early 20th century, Glasnevin Cemetery became the resting place of some of the most well-known figures in Irish history such as: Daniel O'Connell, Charles Stewart Parnell, Michael Collins, Éamon de Valera and Constance Markievicz to name but a few.

Glasnevin

◦ Glasnevin seems to have been founded by Saint Mobhi

(sometimes known as St Berchan) in the sixth (or perhaps fifth)

century as a monastery. His monastery continued to be used for

many years afterwards - St. Colman is recorded as having paid

homage to its founder when he returned from abroad to visit Ireland

a century after St Mobhi's death in 544. St. Columba of Iona is

thought to have studied under St. Mobhi, but left Glasnevin

following an outbreak of plague and journeyed north to open the

House at Derry; there is a long street (Iona Road) in Glasnevin

named in his honour and the church on Iona Road is called Saint

Columba's.

SEVEN WONDERS OF

IRELAND

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