After visiting Newbridge Silverware Visitor Centre & Museum of Style Icons M.O.S.I, I went to see Moone High Cross – one of the highest cross in Ireland. Moone High Cross, located in a small village called Moone in the south of County Kildare, is a National Monument reputedly dating from the eighth century. It is the second-tallest High Cross in […]
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In 2007, the Museum of Style Icons was established at the Newbridge Silverware Visitor Centre, in County Kildare. So, it all started with a true style icon and a wardrobe classic: Audrey Hepburn’s little black dress. The Givenchy-designed dress with a sequined peplum and matching trim at the hem. Worn by Hepburn in the mad-cap thriller Charade (1963). […]
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From The Curragh, we went to Newbridge Silverware, a design company’s visitor center with a homeware & jewelry store, a restaurant & fashion museum. Newbridge itself sits on the Curragh plains, in County Kildare, in the heart of Ireland’s ancient east. I have been there before. But I was happy to see the Newbridge Silverware […]
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I stopped to see the Military graveyard on the Curragh of Kildare. It is called Curragh Military Cemetery and is situated on the eastern side of Curragh Military Camp, 3 miles southwest of Newbridge, and 4 miles southeast of Kildare town. The Curragh has historically been a military assembly area, due to the wide expanse […]
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The Curragh is a flat open plain of almost 2,000 hectares (5,000 acres) of common land in County Kildare. The name Curragh comes from the Irish word “currach” which translates as “plain”, a place of the running horse. So, the Curragh is Ireland’s largest, finest, and possibly only, example of a surviving ancient lowland unenclosed […]
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