Ireland Tag

Golf is one of Ireland's most popular sports.  When Ulster was planned in 1606, a certain Viscount Montgomery, with ancestral home in Ayrshire, Scotland, acquired a large portion of the Ards Peninsula in County Down.  He built a school at Newtown where the scholars had...

An ancient royal site on the plains of County Roscommon in Ireland. Many prehistoric and early medieval earthen monuments (mounds and raths) were found here. According to legend , Rathcroghan was the seat of King Ailill and Queen Maeve of Connacht , whose pillow talk led to...

The mighty stronghold of Carrickfergus castle is on the shores of Belfast Lough and easily accessible on Belfast tours !! It was once the centre of Anglo-Norman power in Ulster and is a remarkably complete and well-preserved early medieval castle that has survived intact despite 750...