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21 Oct 2025

Three Louth landmarks captured in Rebecca Brownlie’s haunting Abandoned Ireland 2

Glyde Court in Tallanstown and Tain Adventure Centre in Caringford are featured

Three Louth landmarks captured in Rebecca Brownlie’s haunting Abandoned Ireland 2

A swimming pool in Tain Adventure Centre

Three locations in  Louth feature in a new book of photography by photographer Rebecca Brownlie.

In Abandoned Ireland 2, Ms Brownlie travels further off the beaten path to explore and showcase Ireland’s forgotten buildings before nature or the demolition man claims them forever. 

The three Louth locations are Glyde Court in Tallanstown, Tain Adventure Centre in Caringford and the Garlic House.

Through her evocative photography, we cross the threshold of deserted mansions, cottages, convents and hotels, mills and  shopping centres, wandering through once-lively rooms that have  now fallen silent, where only mementos of the past stand sentinel.  

Amid the decay, tables are elaborately set for tea, coats hang by  the door and well-thumbed books lay poised and open, as if their  owner will be back at any moment. 

From a castle where King James II stayed before the Battle of the Boyne to a manor house  whose occupants mysteriously disappeared in the middle of the night, the arresting and  poignant photography on every page is a love letter to Ireland’s buildings abandoned to  time. 

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