Author: podium

  • June 12, 2014
    My family and I planned our tour of Ireland through Ireland Luxury Tours this year. I didnt want to drive…
  • June 11, 2014
    Edinburgh owes its existence to the Castle Rock, the glacier-worn stump of a long-extinct volcano that provided a near-perfect defensive…
  • June 11, 2014
    From May 12-24th, 2014 my husband and I (from Chicago) along with my sister and her husband (from Philadelphia) took…
  • June 10, 2014
    Hi Maurice (Big Mo)! I  have never given testimonials ever! , but I feel compelled to do so in this…
  • June 9, 2014
    Thanks to being retained for parish worship for much of the 17th and 18th centuries, more remains of Grey Abbey…
  • June 4, 2014
    The battlemented keep of Knappogue – built by one of the MacNamras in 1467 – and its later extensions were…
  • June 3, 2014
    On top of a hill, in a labyrinth of lanes, stand some 300 stones. All about 3ft high and seemingly…
  • May 28, 2014
    The well-preserved ruins of an Augustinian priory stand about a quarter of a mile’s walk across fields at the edge…
  • May 27, 2014
    A ruined shell on a rise above a small, wooded rover valley is all that remains of one of the…
  • May 26, 2014
    Known as “Arann’s well” in Irish, Tipperary is full of many interesting features including monuments to some of its less…