- February 25, 2019This little village is a true “hidden gem”. At Ireland and Scotland Luxury Tours we love the reaction of our…
- November 26, 2018Much of County Cavan is boggy and forested. The county is also scattered with a hundred lakes. It is a…
- June 23, 2017The 13th century Anglo-Norman Roscrea Castle consists of a gate tower, curtain walls and two corner towers. In the courtyard…
- July 3, 2016There are the remains of the third largest 13th century castle in Ireland: a quadrangular court with cylindrical angle-towers, a…
- November 1, 2015The traditional prophecy, attributed to St. Columbia, that “a stranger mounted on a white horse and bearing a shield of…
- October 28, 2015Dunluce (Dun Lios, the Fort of Enclosures) an Anglo-Norman castle build by Richard de Burgh, Earl of Ulster, about 1300,…
- June 2, 2015The granite ridge that forms the lovely Wicklow and Blackstairs Mountains across the south-east corner of Ireland has given this…
- March 23, 2015Island Of Saints And Scholars The coming of Christianity to Ireland in early 5th century was unlike its arrival any…
- January 13, 2015Drogehda, County Louth This close packed town, with its old buildings clustered in 13th century streets, retains a medieval feel.…
- November 6, 2014The town of the ‘ford of the kings’ is an old walled settlement that once lay at the intersection of…