County Mayo offers 1,168km of Wild Atlantic coastline, Croagh Patrick, Achill Island and Westport — one of Ireland’s most walkable towns. The complete guide to Ireland’s north-west county — plus get weekly Ireland stories free in our newsletter.
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The National Famine Museum at Strokestown Park holds something no other Famine site in Ireland can offer — the actual letters of starving tenants, written to a landlord who would be shot dead within months of receiving them. Major Denis Mahon of Strokestown Park, County Roscommon, was assassinated on November 2nd, 1847.
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Photo: Philip Halling / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0) The Building in Cork That Set the World Price of Butter By the time most of …