- January 13, 2019Sneem is a village spectacularly set against the mountains on the Ring of Kerry. It is actually pronounced “Shneem” It…
- December 12, 2018The Dingle Peninsula is remote, romantic, and beautiful. But driving around the Peninsula is not for the faint hearted with…
- July 21, 2017This complex of churches is linked to the cult of St Brendan the Navigator, who was born nearby in 484…
- June 11, 2017This town, on the mouth of the River Sheen, was founded in 1670 by William Petty, Cromwell’s surveyor general. However,…
- December 14, 2016Valetina Island – also known as Valencia – with its dramatic cliffs at Bray Head, is separated from the mainland…
- April 21, 2016County Kerry, with Killarney and its lakes, contains the most celebrated, and consequently the most visited attractions in Ireland; the…
- February 11, 2016Mount Brandon, austere and impressive at all times, cloudy at most times, dominates Brandon Bay across whose waters the light…
- November 29, 2015Kerry has a clean beauty of bone about it denied to the other more fleshy counties of Ireland, for although…
- February 26, 2015Fortresses In Ireland At almost every turn in the Irish countryside there are remnants of ancient forts, some now reduced…
- October 1, 2014St Brendan the Navigator was born at Fenit, and from there he is said to have set sail for America…