Tag: Tours of Ireland

  • December 16, 2015
    A market town on the River Suir, long associated with the Butler family, later Earls of Ormond. A priory was…
  • November 29, 2015
    Kerry has a clean beauty of bone about it denied to the other more fleshy counties of Ireland, for although…
  • November 18, 2015
    "Sing the peasantry and then Hard-riding country gentlemen"   County Meath – known as “royal Meath” from its ancient connection…
  • November 1, 2015
    The traditional prophecy, attributed to St. Columbia, that “a stranger mounted on a white horse and bearing a shield of…
  • October 21, 2015
      Enniskillen (Inis Ceitleann, Ceithle’s Island) the capital of County Fermanagh illustrates very well the long, neat, narrow street of…
  • October 7, 2015
      The quiet coastal road which climbs up from the bay and village of Cushendun has its little hair-raising hills…
  • August 10, 2015
      One of Ireland’s most sumptuous houses, Ballyfin was built in 1826 by the 9th baronet Sir Charles Coote to…
  • August 3, 2015
    06 August - 09 August The European Challenge Tour will make a welcome return to the province this year with…
  • July 9, 2015
    Seagulls swirl around the trawlers entering the port of Killybegs, one of Ireland’s major fishing harbours. It is a rough…
  • June 29, 2015
    This tiny island, surrounded by a salt lake and cut off from the sea by a sand bar, has been…