Magical Midlands

The flyover states of Ireland, poor Laois, Longford, Offaly and Westmeath often get overlooked by tourists. Kanye West and Kim Kardashian were famously spotted at a cinema in Laois on their honeymoon in Ireland. Should have taken an OT!

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What you might see

☘The Jealous Walla fake ruin built to block the view of a brother's house
☘The water that flows uphill and the tree that won't burntwo stubborn local wonders
☘Michael Jackson's Irish hideawaythe country estate he rented away from the cameras
☘Marie Antoinette's ringa French royal keepsake that ended up in the midlands
☘Pope's helipadthe concrete pad built for the 1979 papal visit
☘Napoleon's horse's gravethe emperor's charger, buried far from France
☘A burial pyramidan Egyptian-style tomb in an Irish graveyard
☘A bog railwaynarrow-gauge tracks crossing raised peat bog
☘The country's geographical centrean unremarkable spot with a big claim