Parnell National Memorial Park

County Wicklow


In the village centre, this beautiful park with ponds, sculptures and winding paths has a bronze statue of Rathdrum-born Irish nationalist hero Charles Stewart Parnell, and a 2016 commemorative stone inscribed with the text of the 1916 Proclamation of the Irish Republic.


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