Lough Key is one of Ireland’s most beautiful lakes, which can be reached by boaters on the River Shannon via the Boyle River. The Forest Park surrounding it comprises approximately 800 acres of varied woodland.
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Rivers and Lakes
Lough Key Forest Park
Glencar Waterfall and Lake
The romantic Glencar Waterfall lies about 8 miles north of Sligo town, and about 5 miles south of Manorhamilton. With a drop of about 50 feet, it is a small but beautiful waterfall, and was mentioned by W. B.…
Slieve Bloom Mountains
Beautiful, suprising, haunting and lonely, Ireland’s Slieve Bloom Mountains are rarely visited by the Irish, let alone visitors. The mountain range forms a broad elongated dome, extending for almost 25km in a north-easterly/south-westerly direction on the Laois/Offaly border, near…
Athy
Athy Heritage Town, in south county Kildare, is situated where the River Barrow meets Dublin’s Grand Canal, about an hour’s drive west of the capital. Traditionally a market town, it is one of Ireland’s most ancient.
The name…
The Burren
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The Burren, an area of about 100 square miles of karstic limestone rock and sparse soil on a dramatically undulating landscape, lies in the north-west corner of county Clare. Bordered on the west by the Atlantic Ocean, with
Killykeen Forest Park
Killykeen Forest Park is a beautiful mixed woodlands park, comprising 600 acres, woven around the lake and islands of Lough Oughter. Killykeen lies four miles west of Cavan town on the Killeshandra Road (R199). Lough Oughter forms part…
Leighlinbridge Castle
The original “Black Castle” at Leighlinbridge, Co. Carlow, is one Ireland’s earliest Norman fortresses. It was constructed in 1181 by Hugh de Lacy, a Norman baron who governed Ireland on behalf of Henry II, to defend the river…