Category: Ireland
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A Master Map Maker
Tucked away in a corner of Enniskillen Library are three large wall-mounted streetscape panels showing side-view elevations of houses, shops, churches and civic buildings fronting onto several streets of Enniskillen. They represent, in two-dimensional form, an architectural, spatial and historical record of 330 buildings from 1862 to 2018 and include names of 5,000 tenants and…
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Living Cheek By Jowl
Despite its poor state of preservation I have rarely come across an ancient monument so intriguing. Its location and appearance were counter intuitive and out of context. Moreover, it shouldn’t have been there. I had checked the heritage map before I started out, and there were no scheduled sites of any kind indicated for this…
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Scratchings In The Dark
After four visits, I still don’t fully understand this place, nor have I found any hard evidence that it was used as a hide-out during the 1920/21 War of Independence. Indeed, had I lived near it at the time, I would probably have had no knowledge of its existence and purpose given its remote location.…