This is one of our favourite places in all of Ireland. At Ireland and Scotland Luxury Tours we stay at Sheen Falls Lodge and our clients fall in love with the place. Kenmare’s two main roads are wide and spacious which is unusual in Ireland. This is because...
The coast on this stretch of land between Lossiemouth and Hopeman is generally low and flat, with miles of fine sand at the seashore. Post-Ice Age glacial release created cliffs of red sandstone between sixty and a hundred feet high. The sea has worked at...
These are three small islands 30 miles out in the Atlantic Ocean off the West coast of Ireland. The islands are known as Inishmore, Inishmaan, and Inisheer. The first inhabitants of these islands are thought to have arrived during the late Bronze age. There is plenty of evidence...
This town is a real hidden gem for any tours of Ireland. A monastery was founded in the 9th century and two granite crosses from around that time have survived. Another survivor is a 12th century Romanesque doorway (though the modern church behind it is not great...
By Giorgio Galeotti - Own work, CC BY 4.0, Link On any tours of Ireland, you will think about the East coast. The likes of Wicklow and Wexford are worth seeing but often you have limited time. Waterford was once very popular for the crystal factory alone. But now...
If you are seriously considering a tour of Ireland, or a tour of Scotland, start planning now! It has come to our attention that the choice hotels are booking up already. The right hotel, in the right location, with the right room, with the right staff, can...
Not, as the name might suggest, situated in the island of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, but in Knapdale, Loch Stornoway is barely deserving of the title of loch at all. It is little more than a sandy bay on the west of the tongue...
Inistioge (Tighes Island) is a very pleasant example of the little Irish village should you wish to see one on any tours of Ireland. It has a quaint church, a standing cross, and a local square. Time seems to have stood still with the lime trees lining...
The lovely Nine Glens bite deeply into the basalts of the Antrim plateau and into the hard overlays of modern history. Cut off, until a century ago, by land barriers, these green pockets of Gaelic life have kept their own distinction and character. Their outlook was always...
Words in stone network round the crown of the abbey tower read ‘King Robert the Bruce’. Here, before the high altar, the great hero of the medieval Wars of Independence is buried. Dunfermline’s Benedictine abbey dates from the 12th century but lettering such as that...