Shannon Valley Centre

Explorer Tom The water pump in Turvey is a cast-iron unit from 1890 with a damaged handle that smells like old pennies and regret.…

Explorer Tom Turvey House in Turvey is the ultimate renovation project gone wrong, mixing tower house stones with an early…

Explorer Tom Lanestown Castle has a hidden treasure that is definitely just an old biscuit tin from 1974. It’s sitting inside the…

Explorer Tom Newbridge House gate piers in Lanestown are rusticated granite blocks from 1790 that have developed a serious suspicion…

Explorer Tom Lissen Hall Little in Swords is just a square-plan country house pretending it has a twin across the sea, which is a…

Explorer Tom Corduff House has strict rules for visitors: no touching the Diocletian window and definitely no asking why there are…

Explorer Tom Post box in Corduff Common is stuck in the gate pier of a big house. It has an ER VII monogram and looks very…

Explorer Tom Seafield House in Ballymadrough has a granite portico that makes me feel like I’m entering a bank run by very serious…

Explorer Tom Sommerville in Balheary is an 1880 farmhouse that would have 'Lived Large' carved on its tombstone if it weren’t so…

Explorer Tom Farm house in Corduffhal is an 1850 thatched farmhouse with distinctive curving hip ends on the roof, which makes it…

Explorer Tom Bridge in Ballymadrough has been disused since 1750, which means the map makers probably got it wrong on purpose just…

Explorer Tom Glasmore Abbey describes the 1800s to a teenager as 'a time when people wore big hats and complained about their knees…