- October 13, 2014Blantyre’s most famous son is David Livingstone, epitome of the Victorian missionary-explorer, who opened up central Africa to European religion.…
- October 13, 2014Sir Lawrence Parsons, whose family was later ennobled as the Earls of Rosse, built this massive castle in the 1620s…
- October 8, 2014‘Switzerland in miniature’ is how the English writer William Thackeray described Glenariff in 1872. Of all the Antrim glens, this…
- October 7, 2014Once one of the richest Abbeys in Southern Scotland, Kelso Abbey was built by the Tironensians, an order founded at…
- October 7, 2014Between Coachford and Macroom and ancient bridge spans one of the loveliest reaches of the River Lee, and on a…
- October 1, 2014A formidable fortress dominating the Sound of Mull. The seat of the Clan Maclean, this is one of the oldest…
- October 1, 2014St Brendan the Navigator was born at Fenit, and from there he is said to have set sail for America…
- September 30, 2014Jura lies off the coast of Argyll, long, dark and low like a vast Viking longship, its billowing sail the…
- September 30, 2014Five irregularly spaced drum towers linked by massive walls are all that remain of the castle that King John built…
- September 24, 2014The narrow, one-way streets of Clare’s busy county town still have a medieval feel to them. Ennis grew up around…