Grianan of Aileach are located at the hill-top of Greenan mountain and near the village of Burt, Northern Ireland. From the history, it said that the ruins were the fortress of the Kingdom of Aileach. Furthermore, Kingdom of Ulaidh and Oirialla was the two Kingdom in the North under the Kingdom of Aileach. It means [...]

Glencar Waterfall is situated in Glencar Lough, County Leitrim. It is not far from Manorhamilton, a town in the centre of the North Leitrim Glens, which is about 11km by road. This 50 feet (15.24m) high waterfall was an inspiration to William Butler Yeats (1865-1939), Nobel Prize winning Irish dramatist, author and poet to create [...]

Trabane Strand is located in County Donegal. This beach is not far from the village of Glencolumbcille. The beach is surrounded by the high cliffs and stunning blue sea. There is a steps/stairs that connected from the cliff through the beach. So, visitors can use this stairs to go down to the shore.

Trabane Strand, County [...]

Slieve League is located on the West coast of County Donegal. Slieve is the second highest marine cliff in Ireland after Croaghaun on Achill Island. Slieve League also known as the Grey Mountain with a height about 601m above the sea level. Walking through the cliff is the best thing but extremely scary. If you [...]

Newgrange Megalithic Passage Tomb lies in Country Meath on the east coast of Ireland, one of the famous Irish prehistoric sites. It was built in 3200 BC which is older than the Stonehenge in England and Pyramid of Giza in Egypt. This Passage Tomb was surrounded with 97 kerbstones and some of the stones are [...]

Shore fishing and sea angling are the popular activity at Tarbert. There is a fishing place at east of Ballylongford, 3km from Tarbert. Fishing is on both sides of the road and the parking lot is at the end of the road which can be access onto the beach. The best time of fishing is [...]

Carrigafoyle Castle was built in 1490 by the Conor Liath O’connor-Kerry. This large tower house is located on the shore of the Shannon Estuary. It was protected with double defensive walls and the inner wall enclosed a bawn. These bawns was extended in to the water and surrounding by moat which covered on the three [...]

Ballybunion Castle is situated 8 miles west of Listowel. It was built on a cliff which extends down in both directions and overlooks the mouth of the Shannon. It was built by the Geraldine’s in the 14th Century. It has been acquired from the Geraldine’s by the Bunyan family. The castle and lands was lost [...]

The Battery fortress was build to avoid any sudden invasion by Napoleon. The British decided to build this fort around the Irish coast as the Artillery fortifications. It was the area in the Shannon Estuary and Galway bay. The forts are a “D-shaped” size building surrounded by a dry moat with six guns arrange around [...]

Tarbert also known as “Tairbeart” or “isthmus” is a village located in the north of County Kerry, Ireland. This is because the island is linked to the mainland by a short isthmus (a narrow strip of land that is bordered on two sides by water and connects two larger land masses). It is a ferry [...]