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In Ireland's County Limerick, near the River Shannon, there is a quiet little suburb by the name of Garryowen, which means `` Garden of Owen ''.
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Ireland's and County
Northern Ireland's main airport, Belfast International Airport, at Aldergrove is in County Antrim.
Two of Northern Ireland's main ports are in County Antrim, Larne and Belfast.
* Maureen O ' Sullivan, Ireland's first international movie star, was born in Boyle, County Roscommon.
County Kildare houses the hub of Ireland's network of major roads.
* Downpatrick & County Down Railway is Ireland's only full-sized heritage railway, built on the town's former rail link to Belfast, links the town with Inch Abbey.
In honor of the Irish settlers, Father C. J. Knauf, the parish priest in Adrian and Bishop Ireland's colonization agent in Nobles County, suggested the name Lismore, after a village in County Waterford, Ireland, noted for its beautiful castle.
Their meetings generally take place a number of times a year in Maynooth, County Kildare, the location of St Patrick's College, Maynooth, Ireland's national Catholic seminary.
It was produced at Ireland's largest explosives factory in Enfield, County Meath.
Responding to the 2008 – 2011 Irish banking crisis in County Cork on 15 February 2009, Kenny asked the entire board of the Central Bank of Ireland's Financial Regulation section to resign.
*€ 19 million ( US $ 30 million ) was the largest jackpot and largest single-ticket jackpot in Ireland's Lotto, won on June 28, 2008 by a group of sixteen work colleagues at a quarry and concrete plant in County Carlow.
On the last Sunday in July, pilgrims climb Ireland's " holiest mountain ", Croagh Patrick ( Cruach Phádraig ) in County Mayo, traditionally in their bare feet.
Between 1956 and 1965 the sixth Baron was the owner of Castletown House and Estate in County Kildare, Republic of Ireland, regarded as one of Ireland's finest country houses and now a museum open to the public and in the ownership of the Irish State.
The 2008 festival was held in Tullamore, County Offaly and attracted an estimated crowd of 250, 000 people making it Ireland's largest festival, music or otherwise.
Turlough Hill (), also known as Tomaneena (), is a high mountain in County Wicklow in Ireland and site of Ireland's only pumped-storage hydroelectricity plant.
Valentia Island (), also spelled Valencia Island, is one of Ireland's westernmost points, lying off the Iveragh Peninsula in the southwest of County Kerry, Ireland.
The latter, in County Clare, remains Ireland's only coal-burning plant and can produce 915 MW – just shy of the 1015 MW capacity of Poolbeg.
Michelle Smith de Bruin ( born 16 December 1969 in Rathcoole, County Dublin ) is a retired Irish swimmer who achieved notable success in the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, becoming Ireland's most successful Olympian to date, and whose career ended with a ban from the sporting authorities for tampering with a urine sample.
Ireland's largest folly, the Jealous Wall in the grounds of Belvedere House, near Mullingar in County Westmeath.
Dancing at Lughnasa is a 1990 play by dramatist Brian Friel set in Ireland's County Donegal in August 1936 in the fictional town of Ballybeg.
West Cork () refers to a geographical area in south-west Ireland, lying within Ireland's largest county, County Cork.
It is near the border with County Meath, at the junction of the N6 and the N4-two of Ireland's main east-west roads.
Garech Browne, of Luggala, County Wicklow in Ireland, an enthusiast of traditional Irish music and a founding member of The Chieftains, Ireland's leading group of traditional musicians.
Castletownshend () on Ireland's southwest coast, is a village about eight km from Skibbereen, in County Cork, Ireland.
Ireland's and Limerick
Ireland's roads link Dublin with all the major cities ( Belfast, Cork, Limerick, Derry, Galway, and Waterford ).
* June 22 – Ireland's first universities established since independence in 1922, Dublin City University and the University of Limerick, open.
The Galtee Mountains are located across parts of Tipperary, Limerick and Cork and are Ireland's highest inland mountain range.
In the last decade of the 8th century, Norse raiders began attacking targets in Ireland and, beginning in the mid-9th century, these raiders established the fortified camps that later grew into Ireland's first cities: Dublin, Limerick, Waterford, Wexford, and Cork.
The river runs through or between 11 of Ireland's counties, subsuming the tributary rivers Inny, Suck and Brosna, before reaching the Shannon Estuary at Limerick.
From this golden age in Ireland of learning and art ( 5th-9th Centuries ) comes one of Ireland's greatest artefacts, The Ardagh Chalice, a masterpiece of metalwork, which was found in a west Limerick fort in 1868.
Limerick is widely regarded to be the Irish spiritual home of Rugby union which is very popular in the county, but is mostly focused around Limerick city, which boasts many of Ireland's most celebrated All-Ireland League teams ; Garryowen, Shannon, Old Crescent, Young Munster are among the most prominent.
The city also boasts one of Ireland's two swimming pools, at The University of Limerick Sports Arena, as well as one of Ireland's top basketball teams, the Limerick Lions, whose home is also at the world class facilities on the University Campus.
The authority of the Lordship of Ireland's government was seldom extended throughout the island of Ireland at any time during its existence but was restricted to the Pale around Dublin, and some provincial towns, including Cork, Limerick, Waterford, Wexford and their hinterlands.
By the end of 2010, Ireland's main cities ( Cork, Limerick, Galway, Waterford and Belfast ) excluding Derry were connected to Dublin with motorways or with near-motorway standard roads.
From December 2006, Chorus began running NTL Ireland's customer service from Limerick, in line with UPC's merger of the two companies.
The Galtee Mountains or Galty Mountains () are a mountain range in Munster, located in Ireland's Golden Vale across parts of counties Limerick and South Tipperary.
The Irish and Royalist forces were penned into the area west of the river Shannon and placed their last hope on defending the strongly walled cities of Limerick and Galway on Ireland's west coast.
The GS & WR is perhaps the best remembered of the former independent rail operators in Ireland's railway history, with GS & WR routes remaining some of the most heavily used in Ireland, connecting Dublin to Limerick, Cork, and Waterford.
* Ireland's Grand Canal, connecting Dublin to Limerick, was closed after 156 years.
A community was founded in Limerick in 1816, followed by establishments in several of Ireland's principal towns.
Ireland's and near
Dublin is situated near the midpoint of Ireland's east coast, at the mouth of the River Liffey and the centre of the Dublin Region.
Ireland's second longest river, the Erne, enters Donegal Bay near the town of Ballyshannon.
This episode of history, in which the Fir Bolg come from what is assumed to be a place near modern Scotland, settle in Ireland, and then go to the Aran Islands, on Ireland's western fringe, has given rise to one interpretation of Fir Bolg origins.
The 1970s saw the building of the Springhill Shopping Centre, an out – of – town development near the A2 road to Belfast and Northern Ireland's first purpose-built shopping centre.
Of Northern Ireland's five main parties, only the Ulster Unionist Party and the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland have historically had a significant organisation and support in the constituency, though the Democratic Unionist Party has recently started to gain a foothold where it hitherto was near non-existent.
A lecture tour gave him some good contacts among the exiled Fenians who would prove to play a large part in Ireland's near political future, but the money he raised only kept the school barely in solvency.
It was also located near one of Ireland's five ancient routes, Slighe Mór.
He made several trips to Ireland's western coast and rented Corrymore House near Dooagh, a small village on Achill Island, in 1913.
Timoleague () is a village in the eastern division of Carbery East in County Cork, Ireland, located along Ireland's southern coast near Courtmacsherry.
* Northside Shopping Centre, Ireland's first covered shopping centre, situated near the northern fringe of the M50, with more than 70 outlets
Barter founded St Ann's Hydro, Ireland's first hydropathic establishment at St Ann's Hill, located near Cork.
Ireland's first synagogue was founded in 1660 near Dublin Castle, and Ballybough Cemetery the first Jewish cemetery was founded in the early eighteenth century in the Fairview district of Dublin, where there was a small Jewish colony.
Ireland's largest sporting stadium and the home to the Gaelic Athletic Association-the GAA-Croke Park is located near Fairview.
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