Tag: British

October 31, 2019

There is a large impressive mound, with the ruins of the castle, near the village of Duffus. It is in…

November 9, 2018

Today the historic harbour of Kinsale is a yachting and fishing centre of great character. Originally it was a fishing…

May 3, 2018

The spine of Dublin’s most popular and stylish shopping district runs south from Trinity College to the glass-covered St Stephen’s…

September 2, 2017

A little to the West of the city centre, ringed by a wall 11km (7 miles) long, is Europe’s largest…

June 29, 2016

Here took place the last encounter of the daring French invasion of 1798. General Humbert, having marched the 160 miles…

July 8, 2015

Culloden Battlefield The Battle of Culloden in 1746, the last pitched battle ever fought on British soil, saw the defeat…

May 21, 2014

A statue of Daniel O’Connell, ‘The Liberator’, stands at the Southern end of the street named after him, overlooking O’Connell…

April 28, 2014

Overlooking the basin of the River Barrow and with fine views of the plain that stretches to Dublin are the…