Towns Include


Longford

Granard

Lanesborough

Abbeylara

Ardagh

Kenagh

 

 
County Longford

The Longford Shield Longford is a small landlocked county that forms the north-western part of the province of Leinster, bordering both Connacht and Ulster, and is bounded on the west by Lough Ree and the River Shannon.


Longford Town

Longford lies in the low-lying country that forms part of the central plain of Ireland. It is best known as a centre for angling, shooting and hunting. Extensive bogs in the county have been developed to produce peat for power stations

Longford has one of Irelands finest churches, St. Mel's Cathedral built in the 1800's. The Irish name for the county is Longfort, which means stronghold or fortress.

 

Main Tourist Attractions Include :

Bogwood Sculpture Artists
This bogwood workshop is located at Barley Harbour, Newtowncashel.
Their workshop and studio is beside Lough Ree on the River Shannon. Here the story of bogwood is told through video, photographs, charts and finally the finished pieces of sculpture.  Bogwood is found in Irish Bogs where it has been preserved for 5,000 years. This wood was part of the great forest that covered the central plains of Ireland. Michael and Kevin Casey are artists who create beautiful sculptures from this wood.

Rathcline Church
Located in Rathcline cemetery; three miles from Ballinamock, here stands the lovely ruin of an ancient church. The ruined building has the remains of a Romanesque window and dates from the 12th or 13th century. The church was renovated around the 15th century. Most of the gothic doorway, which was inserted then, still survives today. Also added was an ogee-headed window high on the west gable with a 'Síle-na-Gig' carved on the northern splay

Battle of Ballinamuck Centre
Located in the historic former R.I.C. barracks in Ballinamuck, is a lively exhibition which gives details of the Year of the French and the Battle of Ballinamuck in 1798. Having discovered the details you may tread the ground where the battle took place.

Heritage Sites

Corlea Trackway Visitor Centre - Kenagh
The Centre interprets an Iron Age bog road which was built in the year 148 BC across the boglands close to the River Shannon. The oak road is the largest of its kind to have been uncovered in Europe and was excavated over the years by Professor Barry Raftery of University College Dublin. Inside the building, an 18 metre stretch of preserved road is on permanent display in a specially designed hall with humidifiers to prevent the ancient wood from cracking in the heat. Bord na Mona and the Heritage Service have carried out conservation work on the surrounding bog to ensure that it remains wet and that the buried road is preserved.

Ardagh Heritage Village
Ardagh's varied attractions range from its fame as an early Christian archaeological site, associated with Saints Patrick and Mel, to its famous mythological associations with the legend of Midhir and Etain, celebrated by contemporary Irish poet Eavan Boland in her long poem.  The Heritage Centre is enhanced by a plantation containing thirty-five species of native broadleaf trees, with special emphasis on the Sessile Irish Oak.
As well as being designated a nationally important heritage village; Ardagh has also the distinction of being awarded Prix d'Honneur of the Entente Florale and a winner of the National Tidy Towns Award in 1989.

 


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