Tag: Lough Derg

  • July 8, 2025
    This is an island in the middle of Lough Derg, County Clare. It is a great place to see on…
  • June 27, 2024
    This is a true hidden gem on any tours of Ireland. Try and take it in on any journey that…
  • April 8, 2017
    For 1500 years’ pilgrims have been beating a path to this remote stretch of water set in a barren landscape.…
  • May 10, 2016
    Killaloe is a river-side town beautifully situated at the southern end of Lough Derg and surrounded by the Arra Mountains,…
  • September 30, 2015
      Around AD440 St Patrick, patron saint of Ireland settled in this valley, where the rushing sound of the Bonet’s…
  • July 16, 2015
    In the middle of Lough Derg is a solitary, uninhabited, 49 acre island whose atmosphere takes visitors back to the…
  • 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,…
  • April 17, 2014
    In the middle of Lough Derg is a solitary, uninhabited, 49 acre island whose atmosphere takes visitors back to the…
  • December 3, 2013
    Portumna is a market town and cruiser base at the head of Lough Derg. Portumna Castle , built in 1609…