The coast road out of Coleraine leads towards Articlave and on to Castlerock, an attractive seaside village with nowadays an air of affluence, a good golf course, and an even better beach. On the road just before the junction for Castlerock is Hazlett House, a...
Rathlin Island, to the east of Ballycastle and only about 12 miles from the Mull of Kintyre, is a world apart. Once it was difficult to reach due to the trecherous tides which sweep between it and the mainland, but a modern ferry now makes...
1. GIANTS CAUSEWAY The Norths best known tourist attraction...
This year we have had several requests at Ireland Luxury Tours to combine Ireland tours with tours of Scotland. The itinerary below is a sample of the tours we can arrange of Ireland and Scotland. SUN 26TH : Arrive in Dublin and transfer to TRINTY CAPITAL HOTEL...
At Ireland Luxury Tours we are lucky enough to be a member of the Irish Golf Tour Operators Association. We are involved in the Annual Conference and Gala Irish Golf Awards which are being held at the magnificent Slieve Donard hotel in Newcastle , County Down. It...
Ireland, an island in north-west Europe, has an area of 32,595 square miles. At its greatest it is 302 miles long and 171 miles wide and consists of a central lowland surrounded by a broken range of hills and small mountains. The climate is mild on...
County Meath is a maritime county in the province of Leinster and in the eastern part of Ireland. The county, covering an area of 904 square miles, has a population of 135,000 approx. Bordered on the east by Dublin and the Irish Sea, on the north by Louth,...
Crannogs are man-made , usually circular , lake islands. They consist of piles of stones as a foundation, covered by brushwood and earth, and with palisades enclosing one or more houses. Modern examples at Craggaunowen (County Clare) and the National heritage Park at Ferrycarrig (County Wexford) show...
Island in the Atlantic, seven miles off the Kerry coast. Skellig Michael was a monastery and place of pilgrimage first mentioned in 823. Difficult to land on, it has six beehive huts with square interiors, two oratories (all built in the corbel technique), a cemetery, a hermitage,...
A short, humorous, and often nonsensical verse of five lines that have a particular pattern of rhyme (aabba) and rhyme. Lines 1, 2, and 5 are of three feet and rhyme, and line 3 and 4 are of two feet and rhyme. The rhythm is...