Sunday 20 April 2014

The Wonderful Barn: Ireland's Spiralling Storehouse

image credit: Joe Houghton

The Irish are often the first to admit they have an inclination to exaggerate. So, when a corkscrew-shaped barn was built on an estate in County Kildare near the town of Leixlip in 1743 the locals quickly called this extraordinary structure The Wonderful Barn. Yet in this instance their hyperbole was not unwarranted. This is indeed the most remarkable of barns.

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