Irish pound note |
Irish Currency |
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Obverse: Portrait of Medb, the legendary Queen of Connacht in Irish mythology. Also a pre-Christian geometric design based on those found on bone slips is used in on the note, the background is an excerpt from the Táin.
Reverse: Excerpt from Lebor na hUidre, the oldest surviving Irish manuscript.
The one pound note was removed from circulation from June 1990 as it became replaced by the Irish pound coin.