Tag: Viking

  • October 9, 2025
    This is a town in Scotland with an interesting history on any tours of Scotland. It is a true hidden…
  • July 1, 2024
    This is a large 15th century tower house worth seeing on any tours of Ireland.   The first known settlement…
  • January 1, 2022
    This village is still a busy port on the Moray Firth, in Scotland. It was created in the early 19th…
  • January 1, 2022
    This village is still a busy port on the Moray Firth, in Scotland. It was created in the early 19th…
  • January 17, 2019
    The city is the sum of three parts. It began on an island in the Shannon and expanded onto each…
  • October 30, 2018
    These distinctive tall slim towers are found at many of Irelands early monastic sites. They are almost entirely an Irish…
  • July 17, 2016
    Ardglass is a fishing village and small resort to the southeast of Downpatrick. It occupies the site of a Viking…
  • April 17, 2016
    The Isle Of Skye (an t-Eilean Sgiathanach in Gaelic) takes its name from the old Norse sky-a meaning “cloud island”,…
  • July 16, 2015
    In the middle of Lough Derg is a solitary, uninhabited, 49 acre island whose atmosphere takes visitors back to the…
  • June 22, 2015
    One a strongly fortified harbour town, Youghal (pronounced ‘yawl’) is now a popular seaside resort with wide sandy beaches. Its…