- October 22, 2018Wexford was founded by the Vikings. It is an interesting stop on your tours of Ireland. It was once an…
- July 27, 2017The area around Dublin Castle was first settled in prehistoric times, and it was from here that the city grew.…
- April 25, 2017About 4 miles off Sligo’s untamed northern coast lies an uninhabited, windswept island that contains one of the best-preserved early…
- March 14, 2017Known throughout Scotland as the granite city, much of the town was built using silvery grey granite hewn from the…
- July 30, 2015If you’re looking for gold at the end of the rainbow, look no further than the Republic of Ireland. Whether…
- May 18, 2015Kells/Ceanannus, County Meath One of the great centres of Celtic Christianity. where the Book of Kells may have been written…
- January 15, 2015The Lower Shannon As the mighty River Shannon tumbles down from Lough Derg, the last and largest of its lakes,…
- July 22, 2014Looking north across the Boyne, Slane is a pretty sight. The main road sweeps down beside a ruined church to…
- July 21, 2014A village in the vale of the River Suck, Clonfert became known for the monastery founded on this site by…
- July 2, 2014This former monastery is one of Ireland’s best-known and oldest religious sites, with the ruins of two churches, a Round…