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  • November 18, 2015
    "Sing the peasantry and then Hard-riding country gentlemen"   County Meath – known as “royal Meath” from its ancient connection…
  • November 15, 2015
    Errigal (2466ft) is the tallest peak in the ice-carved Donegal Highlands. With its furrowed sides and the white screes of…
  • November 11, 2015
    Just over a mile North of the city centre is the district called Old Aberdeen. He name is misleading –…
  • November 1, 2015
    The traditional prophecy, attributed to St. Columbia, that “a stranger mounted on a white horse and bearing a shield of…
  • October 28, 2015
    Dunluce (Dun Lios, the Fort of Enclosures) an Anglo-Norman castle build by Richard de Burgh, Earl of Ulster, about 1300,…
  • October 25, 2015
      Angus is a region of fertile farm land stretching north from Dundee- Scotland’s fourth largest city- to the Highland…
  • October 21, 2015
      Enniskillen (Inis Ceitleann, Ceithle’s Island) the capital of County Fermanagh illustrates very well the long, neat, narrow street of…
  • October 18, 2015
      Louth, the smallest of the Irish counties, lying between the Boyne Estuary and Carlingford Lough, bulks largely in Irish…
  • October 14, 2015
      West of Sligo town – which, except on the seaward side, is surrounded by mountains – the most striking…
  • October 7, 2015
      The quiet coastal road which climbs up from the bay and village of Cushendun has its little hair-raising hills…