killala,county mayo

A television series called Year of the french,based on a bestseller of same title was filmed here in 1981.
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Newport,county mayo,ireland/eire

This is where grace kelly's grandfather came from.
An actress,she later married prince rainier of monaco
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buckler's hard,hampshire,england,uk

This is where a lot of battleships,including HMS victory were built.
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lough mask area,county mayo,ireland/eire

This is where the estate was that  charles boycott was an agent for.
He gave his name to the word `boycott' when the locals boycotted him as a protest at land policies.
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leam,renvule peninsula and lough bofin, county galway,ireland/eire

This area  is where A quiet Man(john wayne was in it) was filmed in the 1950s.
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athlone,westmeath,ireland/eire

Sean's Bar is the oldest pub in europe,with parts dating from AD900.
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st clerans manor,craughwell,county galway,ireland/eire

John huston,the film director who fledd the mccarthy witch hunts of the 1950s lived while filming films like african queen.

Thoor ballylee,county galway,ireland/eire

William butler yeats lived here approxiametly 1919-1929
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tuamgraney,county clare,ireland/eire

This has ireland's oldest church,reputed to date from AD969.
Also birthplace of edna o'brien,the novelist
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Gunsborough house and ballylongford,county kerry,ireland/eire

Lord kitchener was born in one of these places.
It was he who appeared in those famous posters during the WW1 that said `your country needs you.
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fenit island near tralee,county kerry,ireland/eire

St Brendan was born here,he is said to have reached america before christopher columbus.
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dunquin area and stradbally,county kerry,ireland/eire

This is where ryan's daughter was filmed.
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macroom,county cork,ireland eire

The castle here is where william penn,founder of pennsylvania,spend his childhood.
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kinsale,county cork,ireland/eire

Here william penn junior once worked,before founding pennsylvania in the usa

Westropp house,innishannon,county cork,ireland/eire

Winston churchill would visit here when a child(his aunt was married to the owner?)
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youghal, county cork,ireland/eire

Sir walter raleigh use to live here and was mayor here,planted some potatoes locally.
Moby Dick was filmed here in 1954.

Kennedy homestead,new ross,county wexford,ireland/eire

This is where the kennedy ancestors of jfk lived in the 1820s.
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Giant's causeways,county antrim,northern ireland ,uk

This famous landform has almost 40,000 basalt columns,mostly hexagonal shaped.
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benbulbin,county sligo,ireland/eire

This mountain features in William butler yeats poetry.
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croagh patrick,county mayo,ireland/eire

This is where st patrick spend 40 days and nights praying and fasting in AD 441
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carrauntoohil,county kerry,ireland/eire

Over 3,000 feet high,this is ireland's highest mountain
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Allihies,county cork,ireland

This is where the mines in daphne du maurier book Hungry hill was set
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killyleagh,county down,northern ireland,uk

This was the birthplace of the naturalist hans sloane,whose collections started the british museum.
He also gave his name to sloane square in london as well as being george II's doctor.
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bushmills distillery,county antrim,northern ireland,uk

This is the world's oldest licensed distillery,being licensed in 1608 by james I's.
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