Top Things to do in Ireland
What to do and see in Ireland, Ireland: The Best Monuments & Statues
Woven with wild greenery and Gaelic legends, the Emerald Isle is one of Europe’s most prized jewels. Rugged Atlantic beaches and mystery-shrouded sites rub shoulders with the cosmopolitan cities of Belfast and Dublin, where literary history and warm Irish hospitality are always in abundance.
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1. Fiach MacHugh O’Bryne Memorial Stone
2. Saint Brigid’s Shrine and Well
3. Bloody Sunday Memorial
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4.5 based on 281 reviews
Reviewed By Johnny5588 - Austin, United States
This monument was especially poignant since the first victim's name was the father of our tour guide that morning.
4. Free Derry Corner
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4.5 based on 346 reviews
Reviewed By vince23 - Naro, Italy
We are talking about a place not in Africa nor in South America, we are talking about a place in Europe where a certain kind of people couldn't vote nor to have a job. This place is called Derry (someone goes on calling it Londonderry) and is situated in the North of Ireland. If you go there, visit it and you will realize how liberty and rights can established and defended.
5. The Diaspora
6. The Famine Sculptures
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4.5 based on 2,661 reviews
'Famine' (1997) was commissioned by Norma Smurfit and presented to the City of Dublin in 1997. The sculpture is a commemorative work dedicated to those Irish people forced to emigrate during the 19th century Irish Famine. The bronze sculptures were designed and crafted by Dublin sculptor Rowan Gillespie and are located on Custom House Quay in Dublin's Docklands. This location is a particularly appropriate and historic as one of the first voyages of the Famine period was on the 'Perserverance' which sailed from Custom House Quay on St. Patrick's Day 1846. The area is also home to two other attractions that chronicle this chapter in Irish history. The Jeanie Johnston Tall Ship & Famine Story is a replica famine-era ship and offers tours of the conditions famine migrants would have endured. EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum is a fully digital museum that tells the amazing story and history of Irish emigration, including that of the Great Famine period.
Reviewed By starskys77 - Dublin, Ireland
A poignant reminder of Irelands famine past. The expressions on the faces speak out the viewer that this is an exodus made not by choice but rather as a matter of survival. The very quayside that they march upon was the loading point for all ships off to the various ''new worlds,'' they sought refuge in. Indeed the very same ships intended to take them to saftey would be also known as ''Coffin ships,'' due to the high death rate amongst the passengers due to hunger and disease. A good example of one of these ships, the Jeanie Johnston, is a 3 minute walk eastwards, just down from the memoria. It's as if the spirits of the dead are forever caught in time, walking towards that boat symbolising a last glimmer of hope. Irregardless of the cirriculum being taught in schools. Every schoolgoer should be brought here to witness these.
7. Brownshill Dolmen
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4.5 based on 165 reviews
Megalithic monument thousands of years old.
Reviewed By CazBUk - Great Yarmouth, United Kingdom
We were travelling back to Dublin from Kilkenny at the end of our touring holiday in Ireland, and saw signs to the Brownshill Dolmen.Eventually found the small roadside car park. After reading the information board there we followed the path alongside the field,eventually arriving at a cleared area in the middle of the field, where the dolmen ( portal tomb) was situated. It was certainly a very impressive sight- worth the effort to find. There was more information at the dolmen.
8. Kells Priory
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4.5 based on 222 reviews
Reviewed By TomChatt - Los Angeles, United States
The largest monastic site in Ireland, it includes a large wall with several towers that encloses several acres, as well as foundations and remnants of a 900-year old religious community. There's no tour, no signage, just a bunch of evocative ruins out in a field that you are free to roam and imagine what it was like in 1200 AD. Bonus tip: if you like this sort of thing, there is a much lesser-known site called Kilree just 2km to the south that is also worth visiting, which includes a round tower and an elaborately carved high cross out in the middle of a cow pasture.
9. Rory Gallagher Statue
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4.5 based on 115 reviews
Reviewed By HarryA241 - Stonehaven, United Kingdom
Situated yards from Dorrians Imperial Hotel, Ballyshannon, the oldest town in Ireland. The statue is of the famous rock musician who was born in this small town in Donegal.
10. Knockagh Monument
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4.5 based on 153 reviews
Reviewed By U6901IJgeorgea - Brighton, United Kingdom
Wonderful view from the memorial and over Belfast and Antrim and across to Scotland. Please be respectful of the site given its purpose, to comemorate those who gave their lives so we could enjoy this freedom. Definitely need transport unless a 4 mile hike uphill is your thing, although it is a stunning walk on taramac roads to the summit if you have the time and ability.
