🌐 If The Past Could Talk

Nurney & Tinryland Heritage Trail

📍 Carlow🚶 6 stops🚶️ 12.28km⌛ ~180 min

A rural parish trail through south Carlow, from one of Ireland's earliest high crosses and the type-site of the Linkardstown Neolithic burial to Rath Melsigi, the 7th-century monastery that trained Willibrord for his mission to Frisia, and a church window remembering a Carlow man who died at the Little Bighorn. Looking for things to do in Nurney? Start here — no car, no ticket, no booking.

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Stops on This Trail

  1. Nurney Cross
  2. St. John's Church of Ireland, Nurney
  3. Linkardstown Neolithic Burial
  4. Clonmelsh Church & Graveyard (Rath Melsigi)
  5. Saint Joseph's Catholic Church, Tinryland
  6. Ballyloo Castle

For Schools

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