Castletown House

Trinity College

The earliest example of a wonderfully balanced and graceful style of architecture which was the hallmark of the Italian Palladian style is found at Castletown House, Co. Kildare. Built in 1722 it set the style for many other such buildings built by the Anglo-Irish Ascendancy in Ireland in the eighteenth century.

The St. Brendan Boat

It has been speculated that it was in a boat such as this that the first Europeans travelled to make landfall in North America. This model is derived from the boat built by the famous author and explorer, Tim Severin, for his epic voyage from Ireland to Newfoundland in 1977. This proved that St. Brendan and his Irish monks could well have made the same journey in such a boat over fourteen hundred years earlier

Built by the Anglo-Normans c.1173 on the site of an earlier Norse building erected by Sigtryggr Silkbeard and extensively restored in the 19th century this is Ireland's oldest cathedral. It is the Metropolitan Cathedral of the Church of Ireland and one of Dublin's best known landmarks

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