- October 8, 2014‘Switzerland in miniature’ is how the English writer William Thackeray described Glenariff in 1872. Of all the Antrim glens, this…
- October 7, 2014Between Coachford and Macroom and ancient bridge spans one of the loveliest reaches of the River Lee, and on a…
- October 1, 2014St Brendan the Navigator was born at Fenit, and from there he is said to have set sail for America…
- September 30, 2014Five irregularly spaced drum towers linked by massive walls are all that remain of the castle that King John built…
- September 24, 2014The narrow, one-way streets of Clare’s busy county town still have a medieval feel to them. Ennis grew up around…
- September 18, 2014What is left of Dromana House is dramatically sited on a rocky escarpment overlooking the Blackwater estuary. It was built…
- September 17, 2014At the meeting of Glenshesk and Glentaistie lies the 15th century friary, burial place of the MacDonnells. It is reached…
- September 5, 2014The River Funshion flows through Glanworth where it is spanned by a low stone bridge dating from 1446, the oldest…
- August 28, 2014In the 6th century St Comghan founded a monastery here, which became not only a place of prayer but also…
- August 26, 2014The Scottish Baronial pile that stands on the lower slopes of Cave Hill was begun in 1862 and completed in…