Tag: Limerick

  • March 7, 2020
    This is not a place we visit on many tours of Ireland. Many clients want to avoid cities and concentrate…
  • May 19, 2019
      On the road from Limerick to Killarney is the village of Adare. It lies on the River Maigue. This…
  • January 17, 2019
    The city is the sum of three parts. It began on an island in the Shannon and expanded onto each…
  • December 24, 2018
    Just ten miles south of Limerick you will find Lough Gur. It is the only lake of any significance in…
  • December 14, 2018
    These extend from Tipperary across the Limerick border to merge with the Ballyhoura Hills. The highest point is 3018 feet.…
  • December 26, 2016
    West of Sligo, on the south side of the estuary, is the resort of Strandhill. On the shore to the…
  • November 18, 2015
    "Sing the peasantry and then Hard-riding country gentlemen"   County Meath – known as “royal Meath” from its ancient connection…
  • June 8, 2015
    County Clare is a peninsula on the grand scale, cut off on three of its four sides by Lough Derg,…
  • January 15, 2015
    The Lower Shannon As the mighty River Shannon tumbles down from Lough Derg, the last and largest of its lakes,…
  • February 12, 2014
    The Victorian architect Edward Godwin borrowed from fantasy land when he built Dromore Castle for the 3rd Earl of Limerick.…