21 Jan Ideas for tours of Ireland at Glenariff Tea House
Here are a few ideas for some activities on tours of Ireland...
Hidden Gems
20 Jan Birr Telescope , County Offaly , Ireland
An interesting option for any Ireland tours. The Birr Telescope is situated in Birr , County Offaly. It was the largest telescope in the world during the nineteenth century. It was also known as the "Levathian of Pasrsonstown". It was built by William Parsons , the Third Earl of...
19 Jan Hunt Museum , Limerick , Ireland
This is a museum of art and Celtic artifacts worth seeing on any tours of Ireland. Art historian and connoisseur John Hunt advised many collectors , including William Randolph Hearst. Hunt and his wife , Gertrude , also assembled their own eclectic collection of objets d'art , which...
17 Jan Beehive Huts in Ireland
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16 Jan Tours of Ireland – Six Counties Craft and Culture
We have developed a new tour of Iteland for clients !!! SIX COUNTIES' CRAFTS AND CULTURE DAY 1 BELFAST Pick up from Belfast International Airport Drop at hotel (whichever one you think) and have lunch Coach tour of Belfast covering history, politics, culture, crafts. DAY 2 COUNTY ANTRIM Coast Road via Carrickfergus...
08 Jan Irish Tower Houses
Irish Tower Houses are tall , often four or five-story castles erected in the fifteenth , sixteenth , and early seventeenth centuries. Affluent Irish landowners built these tower houses and defenses, status symbols, and homes for their families and retainers. Sparsely furnished within, the houses somtimes had an...
07 Jan Lough Derg Pilgrimage
This is a Catholic pilgrimage long regarded as the most difficult pilgrimage in Christendom. A real hidden gem if you want to experience that sort of thing. It is a journey to Saint Patricks Purgatory , or Station Island , in County Donegal. If you are on...
06 Jan The Irish Harp
The symbolic instrument of Ireland is the Harp...
05 Jan Kilmainham Gaol , Dublin
Another unusual hidden gem for any Ireland tours. Kilmainham Gaol is in Dublin. It is a famous , or perhaps infamous , prison first opened in 1796. It was an ordinary prison , which also housed political prisoners such as the "United Irishmen" and "Young Irelanders". "Charles Stewart Parnell"...
04 Jan Glasnevin Cemetery
This is an odd topic for a blog...