This is a town in County Donegal, Ireland. It sits beside Lough Swilly, on the beautiful Inishowen Peninsula. Besides the outstanding scenery there are a few hidden gems to go and see. O'Doherty's Keep is a fourteenth century Norman castle. In 1601 it was just a small, two-storey castle,...
Anyone on a tour of Ireland, who is interested in prehistory, should stop at Lough Gur. This is a horseshoe shaped lake in the eastern part of Limerick. It is close to the Tipperary border. Extensive excavations here have uncovered the earliest forms of houses yet discovered in...
If you are on an extended tour of Ireland you can fly from Galway to the Aran Islands. They are very interesting and a great place to visit. There are many churches, crosses, and gravestones to explore. There are also Dolmens to be seen. A race known as the...
Happy New Year! Here at Ireland and Scotland Luxury Tours we are already getting very busy for 2023. If you are planning either a tour of Ireland, a tour of Scotland, or both, you need to start planning now! The choice hotels in both Ireland and Scotland are...
This is a prehistoric stone fort that is worth seeing on any tours of Ireland. Staigue stands on a commanding eminence about 500 feet above the sea. It is at least 2,000 years old. The fort was built as a defence against enemies and marauding animals of that...
If you are seriously thinking of a tour of Ireland, a tour of Scotland, or a tour of Ireland and Scotland, start planning NOW It seems that 2020 will be a busy year for private, chauffeur driven, tours. Many travellers have become more “savvy” in what they...
If you are seriously considering a tour of Ireland, or a tour of Scotland, start planning now! It has come to our attention that the choice hotels are booking up already. The right hotel, in the right location, with the right room, with the right staff, can...
County Wicklow, with its moorland wastes and bare granite hills, has real beauty. With its lovely valley, wooded glen, and smoking waterfall, it’s worth seeing on any tours of Ireland. Much of the coastland is low, being a drift coloured plain, fringed from Wicklow to near Greystones...
The first positive evidence of human settlement in Ireland is to be found in a variety of burial grounds. Some of this date back to 6000 BC! These are in the form of “court cairns”, “passage graves”, “gallery graves”, and “portal dolmens”. In a pasture near Carlow...
Dublin is clustered around the banks of the river Liffey, with the Wicklow Mountains to the South, and the hill peninsula of Howth to the North. At Ireland and Scotland Luxury Tours we choose comfortable and centrally located hotels for our clients. While they are more expensive...