Close to the offices of Ireland Luxury Tours is County Down. County Down is Ireland's most easterly county, in the province of Ulster, one of six counties of Northern Ireland. The name comes from the Dun, or fortification, which also forms part of the place-name Downpatrick,...
On a tour of Ireland you may well get the opportunity to visit this County. County Wicklow is a maritime county in the province of Leinster. The county, covering an area of 782 square miles, has a population of around 115,000. Bordered to the north by...
If you are on a cruise ship in Belfast...
Cookstown is famous for having one of the widest and longest main streets in Ireland and the street was part of an ambitious plan to build a model town by an eighteenth century Tyrone landlord, William Stewart, which never quite got on the ground. His...
Just beyond Queens University in Belfast are the Botanic Gardens. It is just one of the several attractive parks that provide green space and beauty, in and around this crowded city. The Gardens are a summer oasis for those seeking the sun (when it actually...
When Ireland Luxury Tours have clients on the North Coast people are often puzzled and surprised to see distant mountains and islands on the horizon. Some believe it to be some remote part of Ireland and most are pleasantly surprised to learn it is indeed...
Every castle of some kind, and the ghost of Ballygally has been around for the best part of 400 years! The popular theory is that the ghost is that of Lady Isobella Shaw, wife of Lord James Shaw. Lord Shaw wanted a son, and when...
Amidst the rugged landscape of this isolated island, you can let your mind wander and discover a tranquillity and beauty that is so unexpected. The ferry to Rathlin Island travels just six miles across the "Sea of Moyle". This island is six miles long, one mile...
Ireland's most loved poet, Seamus Heaney, was not the first to notice that the country's late night radio fog reports, melancholy in tone, were a poem in themselves, and Mizen Head, at the furthest outcrop between Dunmanus and Roaring Water Bay, figures prominently in an...
The brooding, conical outline of this mountain dominates the skyline all around southwest Mayo. It is associated with St Patrick, the site of his Lenten fast and legendary 'Pied Piper' act with the snakes. Each year, on the last Sunday in July, pilgrims make an...