Ireland’s Oldest Scientific Institute
Dunsink Observatory This is Ireland’s oldest scientific institution, founded by Trinity College Dublin in 1783. As well as astronomical observations, the observatory provided Ireland’s official time...
View ArticleNewgrange: world’s oldest astronomical building
Sunlight enters Newgrange. Image (c) OPW This elaborate burial mound is arguably the world\’s oldest astronomical observatory. The tomb was built so that, at each Winter Solstice, the first rays of the...
View ArticleKillarney National Park
Killarney National Park Killarney has the most amazing collection of plants and animals in Ireland: a fish found nowhere else in the world; the prehistoric Kerry cow; majestic red deer descended from...
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