Pigeon House, dovecote in County Galway

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Explorer Tom Kilbannon Cemetery is haunted by a fiddler who played all night until his fingers turned into wooden spoons. The locals…

Explorer Tom The cow at Pollacorragune tried to buy this ruined church but couldn't afford the interest rates. Now it just grazes…

Explorer Tom European ash remembers when the builder was thinking about putting a swing here but decided against it because of the…

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Explorer Tom Tuam Stadium is the town's Gaelic games ground, where the crowd has had generations to practise telling a forward where…