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Residents and visitors to County Mayo enjoy the beauty of 13 beautiful Blue Flag Beaches. This designation means that the beaches meet extremely high standards for water quality, cleanliness, on site facilities, lifeguards and more. These standards reach far…

Great Blasket Island is the largest of a remote group of rugged and isolated islands off the coast of mainland County Kerry. It is famous as the home of a group of writers, who produced some classic pieces…

Tory Island, also known as Toraigh Island, has been populated for nearly four thousand years, since the time of the Neolithic farmers. This tiny, barren land mass is situated nine miles off the shore of Ireland’s northern peninsulas. It…

Ardigole is a small, pretty and historic harobour village located on the scenic Healy Pass road. This hilly route through the Caha mountains on the Beara peninsula offers amazing panoramas, parcticularly if taken in the late afternoon on a…

Over the centuries, these barren limestone islands, located about 30 miles offshore in Galway Bay, have been transformed into beautiful but isolated farmland communities. There are three islands – Inishmore, Inishmaan, and Inisheer. The presence of Iron Age Forts…

John Hunt, a medieval art expert, conceptualized this unique, open-air historical experience. The complex is located near the town of Quin, and provides visitors with a trip back in time by realistically displaying the Celtic way of life in…

On a clear day, from Valentia Island in the northwest part of the Ring of Kerry, at the Iveragh Peninsula, you can see two conical rocks pointing toward the sky from amid the waves of the Atlantic.
The…

Cahir Castle is situated on a small, rocky island in the River Suir in County Tipperary – a natural spot for fortified structures since the third century.
An enormous structure, erected in the 13th Century, Cahir survived a…

Take a day trip from Kilmore Quay to the Saltee Islands and prepare to be dazzled by the sheer numbers of birds and other wildlife taking sanctuary here. Huge colonies of sea birds such as gulls, puffins, cormorants,…

The largest island off the coast of Ireland, Achill Island in County Mayo is linked to the mainland by a swing-bridge and is easily accessed. It is considered one of Ireland’s beauty spots, with a total of five blue…