- March 7, 2016Narrow Water Castle at the bottle-neck of the Newry Water which runs into Carlingford Lough was built after the restoration…
- March 3, 2016Inistioge (“Teoc’s or Tighe’s Island”) is a most pleasant example of the little Irish village with church, cross, spirit-grocery, petrol-pump…
- February 25, 2016“Praise the beach when you come to it”, runs the Gaelic saying, and Rossnowlagh (the Wood of the Apples) is…
- February 11, 2016Mount Brandon, austere and impressive at all times, cloudy at most times, dominates Brandon Bay across whose waters the light…
- January 21, 2016Ardmore, with its smooth beach, its colour-washed cottages and green fields is the pleasantest of places. It was once an…
- December 14, 2015The Easter Rising of 1916 was a curious event, tiny in comparison with the rebellion of 1798, for instance, with…
- December 7, 2015Loughside, mid-way up the western shore is Sketrick Castle. This large, four storey tower house guarded the causeway to Sketrick…
- November 22, 2015County Wicklow, with its moorland wastes and bare granite hills has a wealth of lovely valley, wooded glen, and smoking…
- November 15, 2015Errigal (2466ft) is the tallest peak in the ice-carved Donegal Highlands. With its furrowed sides and the white screes of…
- October 28, 2015Dunluce (Dun Lios, the Fort of Enclosures) an Anglo-Norman castle build by Richard de Burgh, Earl of Ulster, about 1300,…