28 Jan The nine Glens of Antrim
If you are on an extended tour of Ireland , or on a Belfast tour taking in the North Coast , perhaps even off a cruise ship...
Must See Attractions
21 Jan Cork…a rough guide….
Ireland Luxury Tours recommend a visit to Cork on any tour of Ireland...
20 Jan Westport
Westports hinterland consists of some of the remotest and bleakest scenery in Europe, and it s almost startling to find such a finely wrought town amid a wilderness of boulder-strewn, scarcely inhabited countryside perched out here on the Atlantic verge. Westport, elegantly designed by James Wyatt...
17 Jan The Dingle Peninsula and the Blasket Islands
The Blasket Islands, located in County Kerry, are red sandstone rocks sprawled in the Atlantic, two miles beyond the westernmost tip of the peninsula. The smaller islands are Beginish, Youngs Island and Illaunboy. The big islands are Inishmore, Inish na Bro, Inishvickillane, Inishtooskert, and the Great...
17 Jan Wexford and the invasion route…..check you roots..lots of names
The conventional image of Ireland - of luminescent lakes, blue mountains, rock-strewn fields, bogs dark as sachertorte, and peasent cottages coated in generations of whitewash - simply does not hold here. This south-eastern cornerof the country is quite distinctive, due partly to topography and partly...
14 Jan Dublin and Valley of the Kings
The best way to approach Dublin is from the sea, the route chosen by the Norse Vikings who founded the city almost twelve hundred years ago. The city sits plumb in the middle of a sweeping, open claw like bay stretching almost twenty miles from...
13 Jan Ross Castle , Killarney
Ross Castle is the ancestral home of the O'Donoghue clan though it is better known for its association with the Brownes of Killarney who owned it until recently. It is located on the edge of Lough Leane, in Killarney National Park ,County Kerry , Ireland. This...
13 Jan Ring of Kerry
The Ring of Kerry is a tourist trail in County Kerry , south-western Ireland. A must see on any Ireland tours. The route covers the 170 km circular road (N70 , N 71 and R562) , starting from Killarney , heading around the Iveragh Peninsula and passing through Kenmare ,...
12 Jan Titanic facts…visit the Titanic Dry Dock
On our tours of Belfast we advise a call at the Titanic Dry Dock. When you look into this vast chasm it gives you a real feel of the scale of the Titanic. Bearing in mind it was 1902 in Belfast shipyard , it is truly...
12 Jan Giants Causeway ….the geology and the mythology…
Dont miss this Causeway as it was formed 60 Million years ago as a result of volcanic eruptions and is a must see attraction on any Ireland tours !!!! The lava cooled and hardened, it formed layers of basalt rock to become the Giant’s Causeway. You...