{"id":277251,"date":"2026-02-02T18:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T18:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/277251\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T18:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T18:48:08","slug":"watch-longford-location-features-on-brinsley-mcnamaras-weird-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/277251\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: Longford location features on Brinsley McNamara&#8217;s Weird Ireland!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A site in Legan has featured on Brinsley McNamara&#8217;s Weird Ireland.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The hugely popular social media account &#8211; which chronicles the weird, the wonderful, and the highly unusual from throughout Ireland &#8211; currently has a following of 343,000 followers on Instagram, and 100,000 followers on TikTok.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On this occasion, Brinsley &#8211; while travelling through the back roads of Longford, specifically\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.longfordleader.ie\/news\/what-s-on\/2002760\/longford-national-school-to-celebrate-50-years-of-providing-education-and-guidance.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Legan<\/a> &#8211; came across the gated entrance to what he later discovered was a penal era worship area.<\/p>\n<p>The site itself contained a wort cure well by the gate and rows of outdoor pews in front of a stone altar.<\/p>\n<p>A number of sacred artefacts can also be seen on display in a nearby whitethorn bush.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>You can watch Brinsley&#8217;s reel below:<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A site in Legan has featured on Brinsley McNamara&#8217;s Weird Ireland.\u00a0 The hugely popular social media account &#8211;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277252,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,134643,3181,81614,43],"class_list":["post-277251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-legan","tag-longford","tag-longford-tourism","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}