{"id":59289,"date":"2025-03-19T14:14:30","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T14:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.buildingsofireland.ie\/?page_id=59289"},"modified":"2025-08-15T14:01:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T13:01:00","slug":"wonder-wander-walking-trail-newcastle-west","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.buildingsofireland.ie\/ga\/places-to-visit\/limerick\/wonder-wander-walking-trail-newcastle-west\/","title":{"rendered":"Wonder Wander Walking Trail: Newcastle West"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]The National Inventory of Architectural Heritage has partnered with Limerick City and County Council to create <em>Wonder Wander Walking Trails<\/em>. \u00a0The <em>Wonder Wander Walking Trails<\/em> have been developed in collaboration with the local communities. \u00a0In addition to well-known public buildings, each trail shines a light on some of the lesser known architectural details and the stories that are associated with these unique places.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Wonder Wander Walking Trail<\/em> for Newcastle West showcases a wide range of architectural details which might otherwise be overlooked including a bootscraper in North Quay, a &#8220;crow&#8217;s foot&#8221; benchmark in The Square and portraits in the keystones of the Bank of Ireland.\u00a0 A sculptural group in the town centre, <em>Cail\u00edn Deas Cr\u00faite na mB\u00f3<\/em> (2005), remembers the butter and cattle markets which traditionally supported the local economy while a more conventional memorial, a cast-bronze plaque on the old Munster and Leinster Bank, commemorates the Newcastle West-born aviator, Sophie Pierce (1896-1939), who is on record as the first woman to make a public parachute jump from an aeroplane (1926) and who was the first pilot, male or female, to make a solo open-cockpit flight from Capetown to London (1928).<\/p>\n<p>Click on the cover below to download your\u00a0<em>free<\/em> Wonder Wander Walking Trail<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.buildingsofireland.ie\/app\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Wonder-Wander-Newcastle-West.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-59246\" src=\"https:\/\/www.buildingsofireland.ie\/app\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Wonder-Wander-Newcastle-West-Cover.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"267\" \/><\/a>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]The National Inventory of Architectural Heritage has partnered with Limerick City and County Council to create Wonder Wander Walking Trails. \u00a0The Wonder Wander Walking Trails have been developed in collaboration with the local communities. \u00a0In addition to well-known public buildings, each trail shines a light on some of the lesser known architectural details and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":59270,"parent":91,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"views\/template-place-to-visit.blade.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-59289","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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