- June 29, 2016Here took place the last encounter of the daring French invasion of 1798. General Humbert, having marched the 160 miles…
- June 6, 2016Dundrum is a village and small port on Dundrum Bay. On a hill-top are the beautifully maintained remains of a…
- June 1, 2016Balla is a village on the Castlebar-Claremorris road. A broken round tower and a medieval alter in a shamefully neglected…
- May 19, 2016Leaving the Causeway, turn inland to Bushmills, noted for the “Old Bushmills” Whiskey Distillery. This had a license to distil…
- May 10, 2016Killaloe is a river-side town beautifully situated at the southern end of Lough Derg and surrounded by the Arra Mountains,…
- April 29, 2016Aran Island, also known as Aranmore with its lighthouse (originally of 1798, but replaced in 1865) on its north-west point,…
- April 26, 2016The 5 miles of coast between Arisaig and Morar is a fretwork of rocky islets, inlets and gorgeous silver-sand beaches…
- April 21, 2016County Kerry, with Killarney and its lakes, contains the most celebrated, and consequently the most visited attractions in Ireland; the…
- April 17, 2016The Isle Of Skye (an t-Eilean Sgiathanach in Gaelic) takes its name from the old Norse sky-a meaning “cloud island”,…
- April 11, 2016Carrickmacross, a broad and pleasant market town on the extreme east of the region in County Monaghan, was famous for…