Come and see how your great-grandparents coped with day to day living before the invention of indoor plumbing, electricity, and the automobile. Step back in time into a fully furnished and equipped traditional Irish country kitchen of 100 years ago.

Cappoquin House is an 18th century Georgian mansion built on the site of an old Fitzgerald castle. It dominates the river Blackwater at the point where, due to an ice age blockage, the river turns south and ploughs its way through the hills to the sea. The castle was...

Barryscourt castle is the 16th century seat of the Barry family. The present castle, with its largely intact bawn wall and corner towers, is a fine example of an Irish tower house. Both the First floor Main Hall and the Second Floor Great Hall have been extensively...

F.gif (247 bytes)rom 1848 - 1950 over 6 million adults and children emigrated from Ireland - over 2.5 million departed from Cobh, making it the single most important port of emigration. This exodus from Ireland was largely as a result of poverty, crop failures, the...

Redwood is a complex structure made up of two main sections. Firstly, there are a series of main chambers stacked one above the other that form the core of the tower house. These are accompanied by a series of smaller ancillary rooms at the front of the building,...

Built in the 1500s by Maurice Bacach Fitzgerald, the Desmond Castle houses the International Museum of Wine. This museum narrates the story of the renowned Winegeese Irish families. Study the history of wine in Ireland or take a look at wine-related objects d'art....

Desmond Castle was built by the Earl of Desmond c. 1500. A fine example of an urban tower house, the castle consists of a three storey keep with storehouses to the rear. Originally built as a Customs house, the castle also served as a prison in the 18th century (it...

Avondale house is a luxurious family run B&B with spacious mature gardens and panoramic views of Ireland's famous highest mountain Carrantuohill. Convenient to Kerry's many sightseeing attractions including the Ring of Kerry, the Lakes of Killarney and Dingle...

James Butler, Duke of Ormond, built the Main Guard in 1675 as the courthouse for the Palatinate of administrative area of County Tipperary. In 1715, the Palatinate jurisdiction was extinguished. In about 1810, the ground floor, a loggia of open arches, was...

During the Great Famine the Warhouse was the scene of the 1848 Rebellion. The house exhibits the history of the Famine and mass emigration, the rebellion, high treason trials and penal exile of the Young Ireland leaders in Australia and their escapes to the U.S.A.