Mount Brandon is on the Dingle Peninsula. It is the second highest peak in Ireland at 3,127 feet. It is named after Saint Brendan and on his feast day, 16th May , many pilgrims climb the Saints Road to the summit. At the summit lie the ruins of Saint...
Inistioge (“Teoc’s or Tighe’s Island”) is a most pleasant example of the little Irish village with church, cross, spirit-grocery, petrol-pump grouped round a quiet shadowy square. Time stands still, and the children under the lime-trees wait happily for the bus that has forgotten to come....
Mount Brandon, austere and impressive at all times, cloudy at most times, dominates Brandon Bay across whose waters the light and biddable curraghs – lath-and-canvas canoes – have bounded for a millennium and more. It was from this bay, they say, that St. Brendan and...
The Dingle Peninsula is a place of intense , shifting beauty. Spectacular mountains , long sandy beaches and the staggering splinter-slatted mass of rocks that defines the extraordinary coast at Slea Head all conspire to ensure that , remote though it is , the Dingle...