Cavan County Museum - WWI Trench Tour - Ireland
Taking the kids to a different kind of experience - or different kind of museum in this case - we decided to head to Cavan County Museum where they would be able to enjoy the WWI Trench Tour inside and try to build a picture about how it all went back then - we also enjoyed visiting this place and going through this experience.
Cavan County Museum is a museum that is dedicated to the history of county Cavan; it aims at collecting, conserving, and displaying the material heritage and culture of county Cavan and its environs. Inside the museum there are different galleries that display different things for the public and every single place might need a special visit in order to be inspected and everything inside it be fully seen.
There are different exhibitions held inside the Cavan County Museum - we were even surprised by all these but didn't get the chance to visit and enjoy them all - which include the GAA history, the medieval times, the great famine, the Farnham gallery, the pighouse collection, the nun's story, the Percy French, folklife gallery, the boat room, the archaeology room, the historical sites, as well as the WWI Trench experience which is the one we headed to and knew more about.
Seeing the Trench sign on the outside of this tour, we decided to head inside and see what this place carries for us. There are actually several things in this place that look exactly like the time of the war and which we were very excited to bring our imaginations to life through and see how the soldiers used to sleep, eat, and even see the small clinic where they were getting their treatment at.
Once you enter the trench, you will be placed in small passage where the soldiers used to hide from the shooting and shoot back whenever needed - there are also some recorded sentences which were said by the soldiers and you will even hear some shootings in the background as some kind of delivering the feeling of being truly in the place - and from this passage one will get the chance to come to those small rooms which were used for special things.
After entering the trench and walking a little bit within this thin passage, you will then move forward to reach the clinic where the soldiers were receiving their treatment and curing their wounds from the war - it is so small, thanks God they managed to treat them - and then we kept moving forward to reach the place or the room where the soldiers used to make the plans and were their head used to sleep - seems not so comfortable but the kids thought it was =)
One question kept coming to our minds - how did they manage to do everything successfully in such very small places?! =) - it was really interesting to get in a place that tells us how it was all and the WWI soldiers used to make their plans and pass their days - I think the kids got really excited as well about wearing those clothes and hats of the soldiers - gave them a little bit of the feeling =)
If you are willing to visit this place in county Cavan, Ireland, then make sure that you are heading there anytime from Saturday to Tuesday from 10 AM to 5 PM, other than that you might find it closed, and also make sure to check the working times during any holidays because you might find a change of plan as well.
For those who will be already in county Cavan to visit the Cavan County Museum, or even for any other different reason, there are still other places which one might pass by, such as visiting the Saunderson Castle which we have been to as well ( as well as visiting the Cavan Cathedral, going to Kingscourt Park, Virginia for theater and lake, going to Cavan Burren Park, Dun A Ri Forest Park, Cloughoughter Castle, Jacobean Church, and many other things which might differ from one person to another according to what every single one prefers to see and come closer to.
All in all, we could say that it was not the excitement of the kids but we were also excited about getting the experience of the World War One just like them and see how the soldiers used to handle their days during the war - sleeping, eating, being looked after, and all this different things that shaped their everyday life.
We have to mention that Ireland is filled with different destinations that one could go to and visit, you just have to pick the city or the county and make a place with all those different locations that are close to where you are going to stay. Of course it will be always easier for Irish people who could keep visiting places every now and then and not like those tourists who come from other parts of the world.
You could also check some of our latest videos from trips in Ireland and Northern Ireland like the one in Crawfordsburn in county Down, Dublin ( or any of the other ones.
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Most people have heard of and even visited the famous round towers at Glendalough Co Wicklow and Devenish Island Co Fermanagh but how many know that there is a similar tall, well preserved, 1000 year old, round tower in Antrim town in Co Antrim?
I'm up at Antrim at one of the best examples of a round tower in the whole of Ireland. This and the Bullaun stone found near it's base is yet another example of a hidden gem. It was only recently that I even heard of Antrim's fantastic Round Tower!
Antrim Round Tower - Aontreibh single ridge
Antrim, County Antrim
O.S. Map 14
Location:: On the northeast side of Antrim in Steeple Park, once a private demense. The entrance to the park is on Steeple Road. Parking opposite the park entrance is on a private access street parallel with Steeple Road.
Dimensions: : This complete tower rises 28 meters above ground level at the base of the tower, which now rests on a mound approximately a meter higher than the surrounding parkland. There are two offsets visible above the base, each roughly 20 cm. high, the top offset approximately 8 cm. wide and the lower offset varying between 8 and 25 cm wide. The ground level at the base is uneven and there appears to be a foundation level below the lower offset. The NE facing doorway is approximately 2.35 meters above the top offset. Its lintel is broken, as is the doorsill. Each is comprised of a large slab of granite, as are the four sidestones of the doorway, in contrast to the rough rubblework of the rest of the tower. Above the doorway is another block of granite, dressed to the curve, with a fine relief carving of a celtic cross, the arms and top of which extend a short way past the ring and a base that extends downward to a rectangular base with curved edges at the bottom of the stone. This stone is also broken and repaired similarly to the lintel and doorsill. The windows are all lintelled with the same rough stone as the rest of the tower and most are fitted with simple wood frames and glass. The top storey windows face the traditional compass points (almost) and are smaller than the other windows in the tower. The other windows, in ascending order face ENE, S, W, and again S.
Features: This is a beautiful example of a probable early round tower, the relief carving over the door making it instantly recognizable. The tower sits on a very small circular mound of ground, which makes it appear like an island in the surrounding parkland. This suggests that the surrounding land was levelled in the late 18th or early 19th century, when it was privately owned. Any traces of the original ecclaisiastical buildings were removed, possibly at this time. The tower has some irregularities in it's conical cap, replaced in the early 1800's and is missing a few of it's thin cornice stones. A stone plaque is built into the west face of the tower but is presently blank. It is possible that it was placed for some inscription at the time the cap was reset after a lightning strike between 1819 and 1822.
Comments: Despite it's height, the tower is difficult to spot from the road as it is surrounded by tall trees with the very top of the tower just visible from certain angles. It also cannot be seen from the park entrance while the leaves are on the trees. Above the doorway, in three large areas, appears to be some awkward plaster-like repointing. This may possibly be a repair from damage done by earlier heavy growth of ivy.
History:The monastery at Antrim is often linked with the monastic settlement at Bangor with references from the early 7th century. It was probably founded by St. Aebh in 495 AD although Comgall (Bangor's founder) and Durtacht have also been suggested. In response to a raid on the settlement at Bangor, St. Comgall's remains were moved to Antrim. The Annals report that the site was destroyed in 1018 and finally burned in 1147.
Other Items of Interest: A large boulder, (the Witch's Stone ) with two sizable bullauns, lies approximately 6 meters from the tower, slightly to the left front of the doorway.
( Bullaun- A bullaun (Irish: bullán; from a word cognate with bowl and French bol) is the term used for the depression in a stone which is often water filled. Natural rounded boulders or pebbles may sit in the bullaun.[1] The size of the bullaun is highly variable and these hemispherical cups hollowed out of a rock may come as singles or multiples with the same rock.[2][3]
Local folklore often attaches religious or magical significance to bullaun stones, such as the belief that the rainwater collecting in a stone's hollow has healing properties.[4] Ritual use of some bullaun stones continued well into the Christian period and many are found in association with early churches, such as the 'Deer' Stone at Glendalough, County Wicklow. The example at St Brigit's Stone, County Cavan, still has its 'cure' or 'curse' stones. )
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The island of Ireland is located in the north-west of Europe, between latitudes 51° and 56° N, and longitudes 11° and 5° W. It is separated from the neighbouring island of Great Britain by the Irish Sea and the North Channel, which has a width of 23 kilometres (14 mi)[111] at its narrowest point. To the west is the northern Atlantic Ocean and to the south is the Celtic Sea, which lies between Ireland and Brittany, in France. Ireland has a total area of 84,421 km2 (32,595 sq mi),[1][2][112] of which the Republic of Ireland occupies 83 percent.[113] Ireland and Great Britain, together with many nearby smaller islands, are known collectively as the British Isles. As the term British Isles is controversial in relation to Ireland, the alternate term Britain and Ireland is often used as a neutral term for the islands.
A ring of coastal mountains surround low plains at the centre of the island. The highest of these is Carrauntoohil (Irish: Corrán Tuathail) in County Kerry, which rises to 1,038 m (3,406 ft) above sea level.[114] The most arable land lies in the province of Leinster.[115] Western areas can be mountainous and rocky with green panoramic vistas. The River Shannon, the island's longest river at 386 km (240 mi) long, rises in County Cavan in the north west and flows 113 kilometres (70 mi) to Limerick city in the mid west.[114][116]
The island consists of varied geological provinces. In the far west, around County Galway and County Donegal, is a medium to high grade metamorphic and igneous complex of Caledonide affinity, similar to the Scottish Highlands. Across southeast Ulster and extending southwest to Longford and south to Navan is a province of Ordovician and Silurian rocks, with similarities to the Southern Uplands province of Scotland. Further south, along the County Wexford coastline, is an area of granite intrusives into more Ordovician and Silurian rocks, like that found in Wales.[117][118]
In the southwest, around Bantry Bay and the mountains of Macgillicuddy's Reeks, is an area of substantially deformed, but only lightly metamorphosed, Devonian-aged rocks.[119] This partial ring of hard rock geology is covered by a blanket of Carboniferous limestone over the centre of the country, giving rise to a comparatively fertile and lush landscape. The west-coast district of the Burren around Lisdoonvarna has well-developed karst features.[120] Significant stratiform lead-zinc mineralisation is found in the limestones around Silvermines and Tynagh.
Hydrocarbon exploration is ongoing following the first major find at the Kinsale Head gas field off Cork in the mid-1970s.[121][122] In 1999, economically significant finds of natural gas were made in the Corrib Gas Field off the County Mayo coast. This has increased activity off the west coast in parallel with the West of Shetland step-out development from the North Sea hydrocarbon province. The Helvick oil field, estimated to contain over 28 million barrels (4,500,000 m3) of oil, is another recent discovery.[123]
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