enow.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network

2. Blarney Castle - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blarney_Castle

   Blarney Castle (Irish: Caisleán na Blarnan) is a medieval stronghold in Blarney, a town in Cork, Ireland. Though earlier fortifications were built on the same spot, the current keep was built by the MacCarthy of Muskerry dynasty, a cadet branch of the Kings of Desmond, and dates from 1446. [3] The Blarney Stone is among the machicolations of ...

3. List of tourist attractions in Ireland - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tourist...

   Bunratty Castle [2] The Burren, a karst landscape which is home to prehistoric monuments such as Poulnabrone dolmen [4] Cliffs of Moher [2] Cork. Cork City, third largest city in all of Ireland and second city of the Republic of Ireland. Blarney, including Blarney Castle the home of the Blarney Stone [2] Church of St Anne (Shandon) [citation ...

4. Tourism in the Republic of Ireland - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourism_in_the_Republic_of...

   Among the main attractions in Dublin are Dublin Castle, the seat of British rule in Ireland until 1922, Phoenix Park, one of the largest inner-city parks in the world, [15] The General Post Office, one of Ireland's most famous buildings due to the 1916 Easter rising, Kilmainham Gaol, a former prison turned museum that held and executed the ...

5. Blarney - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blarney

   Blarney (Irish: An Bhlarna, meaning 'the little field') [2] [3] is a suburban town within the administrative area of Cork City in Ireland. [4] [5] It is located approximately 8 kilometres (5 mi) north-west of the city centre. It is the site of Blarney Castle, home of the legendary Blarney Stone. [6]

6. Blarney Stone - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blarney_Stone

   The Blarney Stone. The Blarney Stone (Irish: Cloch na Blarnan) is a block of Carboniferous limestone [1] built into the battlements of Blarney Castle, Blarney, about 8 kilometres (5 miles) from the centre of Cork City, Ireland. According to legend, kissing the stone endows the kisser with the gift of the gab (great eloquence or skill at ...

7. Architecture of Ireland - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architecture_of_Ireland

   It was the Normans who brought the Gothic style to Ireland, with such buildings as Christ Church and St. Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin. Blarney Castle. Some of Ireland's main cities were built up and fortified before and during the mediaeval period. Limerick remained a walled city until the 18th century, while Derry's medieval walls still stand ...