What is recorded here
From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 12900306
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Photo credits
- Oliver Dixon, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Maker not stated on source page, 2pos.irish
- Maker not stated on source page, setonshrine.org
- Budisgood, Wikimedia Commons
Saint Joseph's Catholic ChurchChurch/chapel · 44 ydExplorer Tom Saint Joseph's Catholic Church in Townparks is all flash and no substance, really. Built in 1878 to look fancy, but…
Big BridgeBridge · 44 ydExplorer Tom Big Bridge in Ballycullenbeg has been fighting the nearest tree since 1809. One is made of stone, the other of leaves…
Historic buildingOfficially recorded historic building · 90 ydExplorer Tom Some local poet wrote a terrible verse about this four-bay house with a carriageway, calling it 'a brick with a bad…
Hibernia FoundryBuilding misc · 139 ydExplorer Tom Hibernia Foundry in Ballycullenbeg has an unlikely celebrity friend who was a very serious industrialist who liked his…
Grangeville and Grange CottageHouse · 203 ydExplorer Tom Grangeville and Grange Cottage in Ballycullenbeg hosted a dramatic duel between two butlers over whose pies were…
Grange LodgeHouse · 250 ydExplorer Tom Grange Lodge in Ballycullenbeg claims to have been best friends with a famous spy, which I completely believe because…
Bank of IrelandBank/financial institution · 317 ydExplorer Tom Bank of Ireland in Townparks claims it’s cooler than that big fancy bank in Dublin. It’s just an L-shaped building…
Mountmellick Town HallTown/county hall · 335 ydExplorer Tom Mountmellick Town Hall smells distinctly of old biscuits and regret, according to my nose. It used to be serious…
Mountmellick Methodist ChurchChurch/chapel · 339 ydExplorer Tom Mountmellick Methodist Church is pretending to be a giant’s sleeping headstone. Locals swear a colossus naps here and…
Graigue CemeteryCemetery · 1412 ydExplorer Tom Graigue Cemetery in County Laois brags about surviving a storm so bad it blew the hats off the headstones, which is…
Saint Joseph's CemeteryCemetery · 1727 ydExplorer Tom Saint Joseph's Cemetery has a ghost that’s too lazy to haunt anyone properly, so he just naps in the corner. He’s…
Mountmellick GAAGAA ground · 1.1 miExplorer Tom Mountmellick’s Páirc Acragar looks ready to host the kind of sideline debate that lasts longer than the match. I went…
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