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Every place, by county and partido

Towns, churches, cemeteries, monuments and grounds in both countries, with the visiting status each source gives.
Country

35 places

Ireland

Co. Clare

  • A view over Ennis, County Clare

    Town · Co. Clare

    Ennis

    The Clare county town that gave Buenos Aires the physician Michael O'Gorman, founder of its medical teaching, and the merchant Thomas O'Gorman, grandfather of Camila.

    Visiting: Not confirmed

  • The cliffs at Kilkee, County Clare, with Bishop's Island beyond

    Town · Co. Clare

    Kilkee

    The Clare seaside town that marks a reported 1961 overnight stay by Che Guevara with a hotel plaque, a sea-wall image and a Latin American festival; the date is disputed.

    Visiting: Not confirmed

Co. Galway

  • Main Street, Loughrea, County Galway

    Town · Co. Galway

    Loughrea

    The east Galway town where Fr Anthony Fahy, the Dominican who organised the Irish of Buenos Aires for 27 years, was born in 1805.

    Visiting: Not confirmed

Co. Longford

  • Ballymahon, County Longford

    Town · Co. Longford

    Ballymahon

    The south Longford town at one end of the Midlands sending district, and the home place of the Duggan brothers who gave their name to a town near San Antonio de Areco.

    Visiting: Not confirmed

Co. Mayo

  • The bridge over the River Moy at Foxford

    Town · Co. Mayo

    Foxford

    The Mayo town where William Brown was born in 1777, with a 1957 bust, a riverside statue and an annual Argentina Day on a Saturday near his birthday.

    Visiting: Open to visitors

Co. Offaly

  • Building · Co. Offaly

    Derrinlough House

    The Bulfin family home near Birr, where the Southern Cross editor William Bulfin was born and died, and where his son Eamon returned after the GPO and the Dáil mission to Argentina.

    Visiting: Not confirmed

Co. Sligo

  • Gurteen Cross and the Coleman music centre, County Sligo

    Building · Co. Sligo

    Ceolaras Coleman, Gurteen

    The Coleman traditional-music centre in south Sligo where, in 2007, musicians and dancers from Buenos Aires founded the first Comhaltas branch in South America.

    Visiting: Not confirmed

Co. Westmeath

  • The road through Ballymore, County Westmeath

    Region · Co. Westmeath

    Ballymore and the Westmeath sending district

    Ballymore, Streamstown and Ballinacarrigy in Westmeath, with Abbeyshrule across the Longford border, sent more emigrants to Argentina than anywhere else in Ireland.

    Visiting: Not confirmed

  • The Cathedral of Christ the King, Mullingar

    Town · Co. Westmeath

    Mullingar

    The Westmeath county town whose library holds The Southern Cross on microfilm, Coghlan's genealogy of the Irish settlers in Argentina and the counties' emigration oral-history archive.

    Visiting: Open to visitors

Co. Wexford

  • The village of Kilrane, County Wexford

    Town · Co. Wexford

    Kilrane and Haysland

    The south Wexford parish where John James Murphy was born and set out for the River Plate in 1844, remembered in the song The Kilrane Boys.

    Visiting: Not confirmed

Co. Wicklow

  • Baltinglass, County Wicklow, from Church Hill

    Town · Co. Wicklow

    Baltinglass

    The west Wicklow town where General John Thomond O'Brien, San Martín's Irish aide-de-camp and the first recruiter of Irish emigrants for Argentina, was born in 1786.

    Visiting: Not confirmed

Dublin

  • A polo match in the Phoenix Park, Dublin

    Club ground · Dublin

    All Ireland Polo Club

    The Phoenix Park polo ground where the Argentine ambassador hosts the annual Cup of the Argentine Republic.

    Visiting: Not confirmed

  • The Aviva Stadium and Dublin at dusk

    Club ground · Dublin

    Aviva Stadium

    Dublin's international stadium, formerly Lansdowne Road, where Ireland and Argentina played their first rugby Test in 1990 and where a young Maradona played in 1979.

    Visiting: Open to visitors

  • The GAA Museum at Croke Park, Dublin

    Museum · Dublin

    GAA Museum, Croke Park

    The GAA's museum at Croke Park displays a 1918 rulebook of the Argentine hurling federation and a medal won in Buenos Aires in 1925.

    Visiting: Not confirmed

  • The statue of Admiral William Brown on Sir John Rogerson's Quay, Dublin

    Monument · Dublin

    Sir John Rogerson's Quay

    The bronze statue of Admiral William Brown on Dublin's docklands quay, a gift from the Argentine Navy unveiled in 2006 and moved to a new plinth in 2012.

    Visiting: Open to visitors

Argentina

Buenos Aires

  • Avenida Espora, Adrogué

    Town · Buenos Aires · Almirante Brown

    Adrogué

    The town in Almirante Brown partido that was twinned with Co. Mayo in 2007, the 150th anniversary of Admiral Brown's death.

    Visiting: Not confirmed

  • The parish church on the plaza at Capilla del Señor

    Town · Buenos Aires · Exaltación de la Cruz

    Capilla del Señor

    The town of Exaltación de la Cruz partido, with an 1838 cemetery of Irish vaults, Irish chaplains buried in its church and the school Rodolfo Walsh first attended.

    Visiting: Not confirmed

  • The Río Areco at Carmen de Areco

    Town · Buenos Aires · Carmen de Areco

    Carmen de Areco

    The partido with the largest Irish population in the 1869 census, where Irish vaults, a church memorial and street names remain.

    Visiting: Not confirmed

  • Sunset over the Chascomús lagoon

    Region · Buenos Aires

    Chascomús and the Salado frontier

    The first Irish sheep region south of Buenos Aires, where mobile shepherd communities formed along the Salado river in the 1830s and 1840s.

    Visiting: Not confirmed

  • Town · Buenos Aires · San Antonio de Areco

    Duggan

    A railway town in San Antonio de Areco partido named after the Duggan brothers from Ballymahon, whose estancia San Ramón bred Shorthorn cattle from 1888.

    Visiting: Not confirmed

  • St Patrick's church in Mercedes, Buenos Aires province

    Town · Buenos Aires · Mercedes

    Mercedes

    The western Irish chaplaincy town: St Patrick's church and school from 1887, the Pallottines, the earliest recorded hurling and a living Irish society.

    Visiting: Not confirmed

  • Plaza Mariano Moreno and the cathedral, Moreno

    Town · Buenos Aires · Moreno

    Moreno

    Home since 1929 of the Instituto Fahy, the Irish community's boarding school for orphan boys and the setting of Rodolfo Walsh's Irish stories.

    Visiting: Not confirmed

  • The railway station at Napostá

    Region · Buenos Aires

    Napostá

    The site near Bahía Blanca of the failed 1889 colony for City of Dresden emigrants, abandoned by early 1891 after more than a hundred deaths.

    Visiting: Not confirmed

  • The riverside at Salto, Buenos Aires province

    Town · Buenos Aires · Salto

    Salto

    A northern pampas town with 270 Irish residents in 1869, Murphy's estancia La Flor del Uncalito and a cemetery of Wexford graves.

    Visiting: Not confirmed

  • Plaza Ruiz de Arellano, San Antonio de Areco

    Town · Buenos Aires · San Antonio de Areco

    San Antonio de Areco

    A pampas town the Irish Argentine Historical Society calls typically Irish, with the Mooney and Morgan families' church, school and hospital.

    Visiting: Not confirmed

  • Church · Buenos Aires · Capitán Sarmiento

    San Pablo Passionist monastery

    The Passionists' rural retreat on Route 51, with an 1888 Gothic chapel, a cemetery of Irish priests and a provincial monument listing, given by Irish families.

    Visiting: Not confirmed

  • Club ground · Buenos Aires · Hurlingham

    The Hurling Club, Hurlingham

    The Irish-Argentine sports club at Hurlingham, which traces its roots to the 1922 hurling federation and now fields Gaelic football, hockey and rugby teams.

    Visiting: Not confirmed

Ciudad de Buenos Aires

  • The Casa Amarilla on Avenida Almirante Brown, La Boca

    Building · Ciudad de Buenos Aires

    Casa Amarilla

    A 1978 replica of Admiral Brown's house in La Boca, which houses the Instituto Browniano and the navy's historical studies department.

    Visiting: Not confirmed

  • The former ESMA, now the Espacio Memoria y Derechos Humanos, Buenos Aires

    Monument · Ciudad de Buenos Aires

    Espacio Patrick Rice

    A memorial space at the former ESMA named for the Irish priest abducted with Fátima Cabrera in October 1976, visited by President Higgins in 2012.

    Visiting: Not confirmed

  • The parish church of San Patricio in Belgrano, Buenos Aires

    Church · Ciudad de Buenos Aires

    Parroquia San Patricio, Belgrano

    The Pallottine parish in Belgrano where three priests and two seminarians were killed on 4 July 1976, remembered with a Mass each year.

    Visiting: Not confirmed

  • Plaza Irlanda, Buenos Aires

    Monument · Ciudad de Buenos Aires

    Plaza Irlanda

    The Caballito square with memorials to Pearse, Brown and Joyce, where a hurling demonstration was played in 1900 and the Santa Brígida school stands alongside.

    Visiting: Not confirmed

  • Plaza San Martín, Buenos Aires, with the Torre Monumental beyond

    Monument · Ciudad de Buenos Aires

    Plaza San Martín, Retiro

    The Retiro square where the Buenos Aires St Patrick's parade gathers on the Sunday nearest 17 March, with pipe bands, the navy band and community groups.

    Visiting: Not confirmed

  • The entrance to Recoleta Cemetery, Buenos Aires

    Cemetery · Ciudad de Buenos Aires

    Recoleta Cemetery

    The Buenos Aires cemetery where Admiral William Brown and Fr Anthony Fahy lie a few steps apart, and where the navy pays an annual tribute to Brown.

    Visiting: Not confirmed

  • The church of Santa Cruz, Buenos Aires

    Church · Ciudad de Buenos Aires

    Santa Cruz (Holy Cross) church

    The Passionist church at Urquiza 925, a centre of Irish-Argentine life from the 1880s and the place where twelve people were abducted in December 1977.

    Visiting: Not confirmed

Santa Fe

  • Venado Tuerto from the air

    Town · Santa Fe

    Venado Tuerto

    The southern Santa Fe town founded by the Irish-Argentine Eduardo Casey in the 1880s, visited by Laurence Ginnell in 1921–22 and home of the Copa Arturo Kenny.

    Visiting: Not confirmed

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