- May 20, 2014This spacious Georgian town, with a long, straggling main street lined with neat houses and shops, marks the Westward limits…
- May 15, 2014Looking out over trim lawns, this Tudor-Gothic building with its red-brick façade, stone facings and stone-mullioned windows is all that…
- May 12, 2014Between the raw slopes of Benbeg (1788ft), in Joyce Country to the South, and the flank of the Partry Mountains…
- May 6, 2014The charming village stands high above a neat little harbour, from which fishermen have gone out for centuries to the…
- April 30, 2014The three graceful Gothic spires of Cork’s imposing and highly ornamented Church of Ireland cathedral are visible from all over…
- April 25, 2014The most complete example of early Christian architecture to be found anywhere in Ireland is Gallarus Oratory, on a signposted…
- April 17, 2014In the middle of Lough Derg is a solitary, uninhabited, 49 acre island whose atmosphere takes visitors back to the…
- April 9, 2014This was the capital of the ancient Kingdom of Dal Riada, and is thought to have been one of the…
- April 7, 2014The dark, biscuit-coloured tower of Jerpoint Abbey, with its battlements, rears above a bend on the road South from Thomastown.…
- April 3, 2014A single small tower is all that remains of the castle where, during the late 16th century, the poet Edmund…