By Giorgio Galeotti - Own work, CC BY 4.0, Link On any tours of Ireland, you will think about the East coast. The likes of Wicklow and Wexford are worth seeing but often you have limited time. Waterford was once very popular for the crystal factory alone. But now...
County Wicklow, with its moorland wastes and bare granite hills, has real beauty. With its lovely valley, wooded glen, and smoking waterfall, it’s worth seeing on any tours of Ireland. Much of the coastland is low, being a drift coloured plain, fringed from Wicklow to near Greystones...
Only thirty minutes South from Dublin is one of our favourite places to visit here at Ireland and Scotland Luxury Tours. You find yourself amongst some of the most spectacular landscapes in Ireland. The diversity of County Wicklow’s scenery has led to it being referred to as...
County Wicklow, with its moorland wastes and bare granite hills has a wealth of lovely valley, wooded glen, and smoking waterfall. Dean Swift likened it to “a frieze mantle fringed with gold lace”. Much of the coastland is low, being a drift covered plain, fringed...
The granite ridge that forms the lovely Wicklow and Blackstairs Mountains across the south-east corner of Ireland has given this region a distinctive character and history. For centuries it formed a barrier against invaders from the west. As a result, the inhabitants who settled on...
The name Wicklow is the modern version of Wykinglo – Viking Meadow – the name of the 9th century Viking settlement here. After the Vikings came the early Christians , whose traces remain in the fragments of a 13th century Franciscan friary at the West...
A picturesque valley in the Wicklow Hills. Glendalough is...