October 25, 2015

Angus is a region of fertile farm land stretching north from Dundee- Scotland’s fourth largest city- to the Highland…

October 21, 2015

Enniskillen (Inis Ceitleann, Ceithle’s Island) the capital of County Fermanagh illustrates very well the long, neat, narrow street of…

October 18, 2015

Louth, the smallest of the Irish counties, lying between the Boyne Estuary and Carlingford Lough, bulks largely in Irish…

October 14, 2015

West of Sligo town – which, except on the seaward side, is surrounded by mountains – the most striking…

October 7, 2015

The quiet coastal road which climbs up from the bay and village of Cushendun has its little hair-raising hills…

September 30, 2015

Around AD440 St Patrick, patron saint of Ireland settled in this valley, where the rushing sound of the Bonet’s…

September 24, 2015

My friends, if you or anyone you know is planning a trip to Ireland or Scotland (my trip was to…

September 8, 2015

A few miles of east of the Glencoe proper is the base station for the Glencoe Mountain Resort where commercial…

September 3, 2015

Although only 3 miles long, this little island off the coast of Galway has quite varied landscapes. Across the middle…

August 12, 2015

Cawdor The 14th century home of the Thanes of Cawdor, Cawdor Castle is reputedly the castle of Shakespeare’s Macbeth…

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