Things to find in Ireland
3 legends, 2 gem & mineral ground, 1 haunted place on the free Club 49 adventure map
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- Connemara marble Gem & mineral ground
Ireland’s national gemstone, a green banded serpentine-marble formed some 600 million years ago in the west of Ireland, quarried in Connemara and cut into everything from jewellery to the columns of grand buildings. It is one of...
Open it on the map - Leap Castle Haunted place
Often called the most haunted castle in Ireland. A 15th-century O’Carroll tower house in County Offaly with a genuinely grim history, a chief cut down his own brother, a priest, at the altar of the upper chapel, and when workmen...
Open it on the map - Newgrange Legend
A passage tomb in County Meath built around 3100 BC, five hundred years older than Stonehenge and older than the Great Pyramid. Above the entrance is a slot called the roofbox, and it is not decoration: at the winter solstice the...
Open it on the map · Read the story - Skellig Michael Legend
A pinnacle of rock 11.6 km out in the Atlantic off County Kerry, where Celtic monks built a monastery between the sixth and eighth centuries at 170 to 180 metres up: six corbelled beehive cells and oratories laid dry, without...
Open it on the map · Read the story - The Derrynaflan and Ardagh hoards Legend
Two of the finest pieces of early medieval metalwork in Europe, both found by chance in Ireland: the Ardagh Chalice turned up in a potato field in Limerick in 1868, and the Derrynaflan Hoard, a chalice, paten and strainer, was...
Open it on the map · Read the story - Wicklow gold Gem & mineral ground
Ireland had a genuine gold rush. In 1795 a large nugget was found in a stream in the Wicklow Mountains and within weeks thousands were working the gravels of what is now called the Gold Mines River; the Crown eventually took...
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