Tag: Ireland

  • February 6, 2014
    A road leads along the West coast of Lough Swilly to Fanad Head , where on stormy days wild Atlantic…
  • February 5, 2014
    Narrow streets only 12ft wide in places – a legacy of Viking times – are crammed along Wexford’s waterfront ,…
  • February 3, 2014
    No building could look less like an Abbey , for when it was built in the 1830s for the Barrington…
  • January 30, 2014
    Once the chief town of the Earls of Desmond , Kilmallock still retains much of its medieval past. It is…
  • January 29, 2014
    Two miles beyond Dunmore Head , the Westernmost tip of the peninsula , monstrous humps of rock with dizzying cliff…
  • January 28, 2014
    Whether you are planning to visit Ireland for a vacation , a golf trip , to find your ancestors ,…
  • January 27, 2014
    About 4 miles off Sligo’s untamed Northern coast lies an uninhabited , windswept island that contains one of the best…
  • January 23, 2014
    Maurice:   I hope all is well and you had a good holiday season. I was going through some old…
  • January 22, 2014
    The lighthouse at Hook Head is an astonishing building , if only for the fact it was constructed some 600…
  • January 21, 2014
    Once known as Belfast Cathedral , this Anglican Cathedral was built between 1899 and 1927 on the site of the…