Things to find in Ireland

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• Connemara marble Gem & mineral ground
  Ireland’s national gemstone, a green banded serpentine-marble formed some 600 million years ago in the west of Ireland, quarried in Connemara and cut into everything from jewellery to the columns of grand buildings. It is one of...
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• Leap Castle Haunted place
  Often called the most haunted castle in Ireland. A 15th-century O’Carroll tower house in County Offaly with a genuinely grim history, a chief cut down his own brother, a priest, at the altar of the upper chapel, and when workmen...
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• The Derrynaflan and Ardagh hoards Legend
  Two of the finest pieces of early medieval metalwork in Europe, both found by chance in Ireland: the Ardagh Chalice turned up in a potato field in Limerick in 1868, and the Derrynaflan Hoard, a chalice, paten and strainer, was...
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• Wicklow gold Gem & mineral ground
  Ireland had a genuine gold rush. In 1795 a large nugget was found in a stream in the Wicklow Mountains and within weeks thousands were working the gravels of what is now called the Gold Mines River; the Crown eventually took...
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