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Places to Visit in South and West County Offaly
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Shannonbridge, Co. Offaly
An early Christian site established by Saint Ciarán, in the 6th century on the banks of the River Shannon. The site includes the ruins of a cathedral, eight churches, two round towers, three high crosses and a large collection of early Christian grave ...
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Doon, Ballinahown, Co. Offaly
This museum displays features of road transport dating from 1922 to the classics of the 60's, beautifully restored and displayed by their owners - farm machinery, commercial and motoring auto-mobilia, household utensils, model rail display and video.
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Ireland's Historic Science Centre, Birr, Co. Offaly
Ireland's Historic Science Centre contains astronomical instruments, cameras, photographs and photographic equipment used by the Third and Fourth Earls and Mary, Countess of Rosse, in the middle and late 1800s.
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Co. Offaly
The centre is located in the edge of Birr Town, on the Birr/Roscrea road. Just 10 minutes drive from the centre the Slieve Bloom Mountains provide a rich field of study for the historian, antiquarian, archaeologist, geologist and botanist. The Slieve Bloo
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Shannonbridge, Co. Offaly
This 45 minute train journey gives a guided 9km (5 ˝ mile) tour out across a working environment, a cutaway area of preserved peatlands showing 12,000 years of history, heritage and archaeology.
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Co. Offaly
See the water meadows near the monastic site of Clonmacnoise where the corncrake may still be heard.
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