Tag: Ireland

  • July 10, 2016
    Killadysert takes its name from a hermitage of St Murthaile’s. there are remains of a medieval parish church with dwelling-tower.…
  • June 29, 2016
    Here took place the last encounter of the daring French invasion of 1798. General Humbert, having marched the 160 miles…
  • June 6, 2016
    Dundrum is a village and small port on Dundrum Bay. On a hill-top are the beautifully maintained remains of a…
  • June 1, 2016
    Balla is a village on the Castlebar-Claremorris road. A broken round tower and a medieval alter in a shamefully neglected…
  • May 19, 2016
    Leaving the Causeway, turn inland to Bushmills, noted for the “Old Bushmills” Whiskey Distillery. This had a license to distil…
  • May 10, 2016
    Killaloe is a river-side town beautifully situated at the southern end of Lough Derg and surrounded by the Arra Mountains,…
  • April 29, 2016
    Aran Island, also known as Aranmore with its lighthouse (originally of 1798, but replaced in 1865) on its north-west point,…
  • April 21, 2016
    County Kerry, with Killarney and its lakes, contains the most celebrated, and consequently the most visited attractions in Ireland; the…
  • April 11, 2016
    Carrickmacross, a broad and pleasant market town on the extreme east of the region in County Monaghan, was famous for…
  • March 23, 2016
    O’Connell Bridge, named after the founder of Irish nationalism, Dan O’Connell, the Liberator (who’s statue by Foley, appears on the…