- July 3, 2016There are the remains of the third largest 13th century castle in Ireland: a quadrangular court with cylindrical angle-towers, a…
- June 1, 2016Balla is a village on the Castlebar-Claremorris road. A broken round tower and a medieval alter in a shamefully neglected…
- April 11, 2016Carrickmacross, a broad and pleasant market town on the extreme east of the region in County Monaghan, was famous for…
- March 23, 2016O’Connell Bridge, named after the founder of Irish nationalism, Dan O’Connell, the Liberator (who’s statue by Foley, appears on the…
- March 14, 2016Gay sunlights o’er the hillocks creep And join for golden weather, - A scythe-sweep, and a scythe-sweep, We mow the…
- February 5, 2016On the road from Limerick to Killarney is Adare (Ath Dara, the ford of the oaks) on the river Maigue.…
- January 31, 2016It was in the Mournes I learnt that there is no better way to know the nerve of a mountain…
- January 13, 2016The Custom House, erected between the years 1781 and 1791, at a cost of £546,000, is the finest public building…
- January 6, 2016Groined by deep glens and walled along the west by the bare hilltops and the tufted moors, this rim of…
- December 30, 2015To see the landscape of Tuscany for the first time is like looking at the Old Masters; only they have…