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It is the largest church in Ireland, with a 143ft tower (Minot's tower) of 1370.

It was a hundred years after the Normans defeated the English at Hastings that they had ambitions to conquer Ireland.

The railway between Dublin and Kingstown was the first in Ireland, and was opened in 1834.

The church was founded in 1235 to take the place of St Nessan's on the nearby island of Ireland's Eye.

Left to right: The royal arms, showing England, France, Ireland and Scotland.

The parish church of St Patrick, in the background, is only one of ten in England dedicated to Ireland's patron saint.

A view looking north west, past the tower and along the east wall of the harbour, to Ireland's Eye.

The church was founded to take the place of St Nessan's, on the nearby island of Ireland's Eye.

Many of the tombs carry shamrock, Irish harp and wolfhound motifs, indicative of the Young Ireland Movement.

In the 1960s weekly freight services to Ireland were launched, sailing to Londonderry, Portrush, Dublin and Waterford, and the port was amongst the first to offer a roll-on, roll-off service for taking

A panorama looking north over the town to Ireland's Eye.

The octagonal Jacobean font is decorated with the arms of Scotland, Ireland, Maidstone and the Astley family, who were granted the former Archbishop's Palace in Elizabethan times.

This monument has survived the changes in Ireland since its unveiling.

There is a chapel dedicated to St Patrick in the Bay marked by a plaque; he is said to have set out for Ireland from here.

The main facade of Trinity College stands on the right with its statues by Foley of famous alumni Edmund Burke and Oliver Goldsmith, while on the left is the Bank of Ireland.

The Annals of Innisfallen, written by the monks here, is an important early history of Ireland.

In the 1960s weekly freight services to Ireland were launched, sailing to Londonderry, Portrush, Dublin and Waterford, and the port was amongst the first to offer a roll-on, roll-off service for taking

Christchurch is the mother cathedral of the Church of Ireland.

It was probably built to protect the vessels travelling between here and Furness Abbey's properties in the Isle of Man and Ireland.

It was here that Robert Bruce is said to have landed on his return from Ireland in 1306.

The imposing Greek portico is the east front of the Bank of Ireland, originally the entrance to the House of Lords of the Irish Parliament, erected by James Gandon in 1785.

The church is a fine pre-Reformation church, now part of the Church of Ireland.

A view looking east along the green to Trinity College, with the Bank of Ireland on the left.

This statue of Henry Grattan (1746 - 1820) stands outside the Bank of Ireland (formerly the Parliament House) and shows the great orator in the act of speaking.