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Seefin Passage Tomb (Irish:Tuama Pasáiste Shuí Finn) is an empty passage grave and National Monument located atop Seefin Hill, County Wicklow, Ireland.

Seefin (Irish: Suí Finn meaning Seat, or resting place, of Fionn) is a mountain in County Wicklow, Ireland that lies just south-west of the boundary with County Dublin. There are extensive views from the mountain top and it is notable for the Seefin Passage Tomb, a large megalithic tomb which exists on its summit.

Glenasmole (Irish: Gleann an Smóil) is a valley in the Dublin Mountains in the south of County Dublin, Ireland. The valley itself is around 200 m (660 ft) in elevation and is surrounded by mountains exceeding 600 m (2,000 ft) in elevation. Kippure, at 757 m (2,484 ft), is the highest mountain along the valley ridge and is also the highest point in County Dublin. The River Dodder rises at Kippure and flows through the valley, reaching the sea at Dublin Bay.The Dodder feeds the two reservoirs at the centre of the valley, known as the Bohernabreena Reservoirs. The reservoirs, constructed between 1883 and 1887, supply 18.2 million litres of water per day. Despite being within South Dublin's local authority area, the reservoirs and accompanying waterworks are owned and operated by Dublin City Council. The area around the valley is rural in nature and has a population of 415 according to the 2016 Census. There are no nucleated villages in the valley as most dwellings are one-off houses. The small area encompassing the valley covers 30 square kilometres (7,413 acres), giving it a population density of 14.9 people per square km, making it the most sparsely population region in County Dublin.

Montpelier Hill (Irish: Cnoc Mount Pelier) is a 383 metres (1,257 foot) hill in County Dublin, Ireland. It is commonly referred to as the Hell Fire Club (Irish: Club Thine Ifreann), the popular name given to the ruined building at the summit believed to be one of the first Freemason lodges in Ireland. This building – a hunting lodge built in around 1725 by William Conolly – was originally called Mount Pelier and since its construction the hill has also gone by the same name. The building and hill were respectively known locally as 'The Brass Castle' and 'Bevan's Hill', but the original Irish name of the hill is no longer known although the historian and archaeologist Patrick Healy has suggested that the hill is the place known as Suide Uí Ceallaig or Suidi Celi in the Crede Mihi, the twelfth-century diocesan register book of the Archbishops of Dublin.Mount Pelier is the closest to Dublin city of the group of mountains – along with Killakee, Featherbed Bog, Kippure, Seefingan, Corrig, Seahan, Ballymorefinn, Carrigeenoura, and Slievenabawnogue – that form the ridge that bounds the Glenasmole valley. On the slopes is a forestry plantation, known as Hell Fire Wood, which consists of Sitka spruce, larch and beech.Originally there was a cairn with a prehistoric passage grave on the summit. Stones from the cairn were taken and used in the construction of Mount Pelier lodge. Shortly after completion, a storm blew the roof off. Local superstition attributed this incident to the work of the Devil, a punishment for interfering with the cairn. Mount Pelier Hill has since become associated with numerous paranormal events. Members of the Irish Hell Fire Club, which was active in the years 1735 to 1741, used Mount Pelier lodge as a meeting place. Stories of wild behaviour and debauchery and occult practices and demonic manifestations have become part of the local lore over the years. The original name of the lodge has been displaced and the building is generally known as the Hell Fire Club. When the lodge was damaged by fire, the members of the Hell Fire Club relocated down the hill to the nearby Stewards House for a brief period. This building also has a reputation for being haunted, most notably by a massive black cat. Adjacent to the Stewards House are the remains of Killakee Estate. A large Victorian house was built here in the early nineteenth century by Luke White. White's son, Samuel, oversaw the development of extensive formal gardens on the estate, including the construction of several glasshouses by Richard Turner. The estate passed to the Massy family through inheritance in 1880 and John Thomas Massy, the 6th Baron made extensive use of the house and ground to host shooting parties and society gatherings. The fortunes of the Massy family declined in the early twentieth century and Hamon Massy, the 8th Baron, was evicted from Killakee House in 1924. He became known as the "Penniless Peer". Following the eviction, Killakee House was demolished and the gardens fell into ruin. Today Mount Pelier Hill and much of the surrounding lands, including Killakee Estate (now called Lord Massy's Estate) are owned by the State forestry company Coillte and are open to the public.

Duff Hill (Irish: An Cnoc Dubh, meaning 'black hill') at 720 metres (2,360 ft), is the 78th-highest peak in Ireland on the Arderin scale, and the 97th-highest peak on the Vandeleur-Lynam scale. Duff Hill is in the middle section of the Wicklow Mountains, in Wicklow, Ireland, and is part of the large massif of Mullaghcleevaun 849 metres (2,785 ft), which lies to its south. Gravale, which is 718 metres (2,356 ft) tall, lies to its immediate north.

Killakee House was a large Georgian house and estate near Rathfarnham in County Dublin, Ireland. It was built in c.1806 for Luke White, an Irish politician and bookseller and was the centrepiece of a 3,400-acre estate, but was demolished in 1941 after many years of vacancy.The original estate included a hunting lodge now known as the Hell fire club.

Gravale (Irish: Droibhéal, meaning 'difficult passage') at 718 metres (2,356 ft), is the 79th–highest peak in Ireland on the Arderin scale, and the 98th–highest peak on the Vandeleur-Lynam scale. Gravale is in the middle sector of the Wicklow Mountains range, in Wicklow, Ireland. Gravale sits on a north-east to south-west "boggy ridge" that forms the "central spine" of the whole range, which runs from the Sally Gap, to Carrigvore 682 metres (2,238 ft), to Gravale, and after a col to Duff Hill 720 metres (2,360 ft), which is part of the larger massif of Mullaghcleevaun 849 metres (2,785 ft). Gravale's prominence of 123 metres (404 ft), does not quality it as a Marilyn, but does rank it the 45th-highest mountain in Ireland on the MountainViews Online Database, 100 Highest Irish Mountains, where the minimum prominence threshold for inclusion on the list is 100 metres.

Thomas Davis (Irish: CLG Tomás Dáibhís) is a Gaelic Athletic Association club with extensive grounds and a clubhouse located on the Kiltipper Road in Tallaght, County Dublin, Ireland. Founded in 1888, Thomas Davis has a long association with Tallaght from the time when it was a small rural village in the countryside. The club motto is Nascann Dúshlán Daoine (A Challenge Unites People).

The Glencree Centre for Peace and Reconciliation is the Republic of Ireland's only Peacebuilding centre. It has been resolving conflict through the power of dialogue since its founding in 1974. Established as a response to the conflict in Northern Ireland, the Glencree Centre for Peace & Reconciliation works to prevent and transform political and inter-communal conflict and build peaceful, inclusive societies. The Glencree teams bring individuals and groups impacted by conflict together and help them find pathways to reconciliation and sustained peace through the humanising power of facilitated dialogue, relationship-building, public discourse and shared learning. The Glencree Centre is a not-for-profit organisation and registered charity, located near Enniskerry, in the Glencree Valley, County Wicklow. The Armoury Café is open on the site from Wednesday to Sunday from 9.30am to 5.30pm for light refreshments and is a popular destination for visitors, hikers and cyclists. Glencree Programme Work The Glencree Centre has a range of programmes that evolve and change with time. These include: Community and Political Dialogue, Women's Leadership, Peace Education and Young Adults, Peace IV: Addressing the Legacy of Violence Through Facilitated Dialogue, Southern Voice for Peace, Intercultural and Refugee, and International. The Glencree Site comprises a complex of historical old buildings that each played many previous roles over the last three centuries. Military Road and Glencree Barracks, the early 1800's In late 1803, five barracks were built along Military Road to ensure it would not fall into local insurgent hands or to foreign enemies. The barracks at Glencree was one of the smaller of these buildings, designed to accommodate a captain and 100 soldiers. When it was completed in 1806, it housed 75 military men. Some £26,000 had been invested in the five barracks which, like Military Road, became wholly obsolete in 1815 when the Napoleonic Wars ended. St. Kevin's Reformatory School, 1850 to 1940 In the 1850s, Ireland was recovering from the Great Famine. Poverty and deprivation were widespread, and young people and children suffered greatly. In desperation, many of them fell foul of the law. A high increase in the juvenile 'crime' of stealing food or vagrancy saw prison numbers increase leading to a public outcry. The British government responded by passing the Irish Reformatory Schools Act in 1858, extending to Ireland the system that prevailed in England. Lord Powerscourt, owner of the land at Glencree, offered a lease on the abandoned barracks. The religious order, the Oblates of Mary Immaculate, agreed to establish St. Kevin’s Reformatory on the site. The first superior, Fr. Francis Lynch, took over Glencree in 1858 and rebuilt the property to house up to 300 boys. They toiled hard to reclaim and cultivate more than 100 acres of land surrounding the Reformatory. The boys received some basic education and skills training in the school and workshops built on the site. Fr. Lynch also assembled a 50-strong brass, fife and drum band and choir that played for the local community and at competitions around the country. The reformatory closed it doors in 1940, when the staff and boys moved to Daingean Industrial School, County Offaly. The complex then served for a brief time as an Oblate novitiate before passing into the ownership of the Minister of Supply. Operation Shamrock, 1945 to 1950 In the aftermath of World War 2 until 1950, Glencree became a temporary refuge for children who were evacuated from war-torn Germany, Poland and Austria by the Irish Red Cross. While many of the children who arrived were orphaned by the war, many others were sent into this temporary foster care in Ireland by parents who faced homelessness, lack of food, and were traumatised as a consequence of the war. It is thought that close to one thousand children, aged from five to fifteen, travelled overland through mainland Europe and arrived by mail boat into Dun Laoghaire before continuing their journey by road to Glencree. The children were malnourished when they arrived, some were near death. Under the care of the French Sisters of Charity, they stayed at Glencree for a period of recuperation, rest and orientation. With health restored, they travelled onward again into the care of foster families throughout Ireland who had responded to newspaper advertisements placed by the Irish Red Cross. According to the Committee of the International Red Cross in Geneva, “The Irish people raised a sum of twelve million pounds for the victims of the second World War which is equivalent to £4 per head of the entire population of the country. That was the largest single donation from any country for post-war relief.” While the majority of the children were reunited with their families after approximately three years, some remained with their foster families and continued their lives in Ireland. Una O’Higgins O’Malley, 1927 to 2005 A lifelong campaigner for peace and justice, Una O’Higgins O’Malley was a founding member of the Glencree Centre for Peace and Reconciliation. Una’s father, Kevin O’Higgins, was Minister for Justice in the first government after partition. He was shot dead in 1927 by anti-treaty forces on his way to Mass. His own father had been shot three years previously because of his son’s political involvement. As recounted to Una by a relative of the assassin, her father’s dying words were: ‘I know who you are and I know why you have done this, but this has got to be the end of killing’. Just five months old when her father was murdered, Una dedicated her life to building relationships of trust between both traditions on this island. She believed that our security depended on the quality of those relationships, not the size and quantity of our weapons, or the strength of our tribe. Una died in 2005 after a long and happy life surrounded by family.

Cloghoge (Irish derived place name, Clochóg, meaning ‘Stony Place’) is a townland in the civil parish of Kinawley, barony of Tullyhaw, County Cavan, Ireland.

Cruagh (Irish: An Chraobhach) is a civil parish in the barony of Uppercross in South Dublin, Ireland. It contains the townlands of Cruagh, Killakee, Tibradden, Glendoo, Newtown, Jamestown, Woodtown and Orlagh. It is situated south of Ballyboden on the R116 regional road.

The River Dodder (Irish: An Dothra) is one of the three main rivers in Dublin, Ireland, the others being the Liffey, of which the Dodder is the largest tributary, and the Tolka.