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  • February 24, 2014
    Rising from an Island is Lough Oughter is a massive , circular stone tower , 59ft high. The lower storey…
  • February 20, 2014
    Surrounded by mud flats where wildfowl thrive , Foaty Island (also called Fota Island) includes a 70 acre wildlife park…
  • February 19, 2014
    The most romantic ruin in Louth ,  Castle Roche is built on a pinnacle of rock , which commands spectacular…
  • February 17, 2014
    High above the wave-lashed cliffs of Kerry Head , at the most Westerly point of the headland , stand two…
  • February 12, 2014
    The Victorian architect Edward Godwin borrowed from fantasy land when he built Dromore Castle for the 3rd Earl of Limerick.…
  • February 6, 2014
    A road leads along the West coast of Lough Swilly to Fanad Head , where on stormy days wild Atlantic…
  • February 5, 2014
    Narrow streets only 12ft wide in places – a legacy of Viking times – are crammed along Wexford’s waterfront ,…
  • February 3, 2014
    No building could look less like an Abbey , for when it was built in the 1830s for the Barrington…
  • January 30, 2014
    Once the chief town of the Earls of Desmond , Kilmallock still retains much of its medieval past. It is…
  • January 29, 2014
    Two miles beyond Dunmore Head , the Westernmost tip of the peninsula , monstrous humps of rock with dizzying cliff…