National Agriculture University housed in Johnstown Castle, a Gothic revival mansion. Beautiful grounds as well.
Irish National Heritage Park is an open air museum much like the Ranching Heritage Museum. It illustrates homesteads, places of worship, Viking boatyard and burial sites to provide a fascinating lesson on the country’s ancient history. Stone circles from the Bronze Age Celts, 2000-1000 B.C. Not as famous as Stone Hinge but this one from Count Kerry represents over 90 stone circles have been found in Ireland.
A Monastic Village representing the 5th through the 12th centuries. These stone buildings are more advanced than their thatched predecessors and somewhat more resistant to the frequent and menacing Viking raids which began in 795 A.D .
These raids lasted until the Vikings fought each other (The Danes vs. The Norwegians) to establish the Hiberno-Norse kingdom based in Dublin. This group changed from raiders and became traders focusing their control less inland and more on trade with Scotland, Wales, and England as well as settling the Isle of Man and Northern Scotland. Their dominance lasted until the Battle of Tara in 980 (Margaret Mitchell must have had some Irish interests there are lots of O’Haras’ here too).
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