Category Archive: Ireland travel

The Gleninsheen Collar: Treasure in the National Museum of Ireland The final day of our tour of Ireland brought us back to Dublin, the country's most important city since the Late Middle Ages. In the afternoon, we offered our guests ... Read More

Newgrange in Ireland and its Megalithic art The penultimate day of our Exploring Ireland tour, was dedicated to three sites. Before returning to Dublin, we saw the monastic site of Monasterboice, with its famous High Crosses and ... Read More

Trim Castle: the Keep May we recommend a visit to Trim Castle in County Meath in Ireland? Our picture shows the keep, or donjon, of Trim Castle, i.e. the innermost and free-standing fortification, the ... Read More

Inishmore: the largest of the Aran Islands in Ireland The focus today on our Exploring Ireland tour was the island of Inishmore, (Inis Mór or Árainn in Irish), the largest of the Aran Islands. Geologically, they are a continuation ... Read More

An ancient tomb at Poulnabrone in Ireland On our Exploring Ireland tour one of the regions we explore in detail is the Burren, the famous area of exposed limestone shelves that forms the northwestern section of County ... Read More

Clonmacnoise monastery, a sacred place in the centre of Ireland Set on the banks of the broad majestic River Shannon, virtually at the geographic centre of Ireland, is a very sacred place, Clonmacnoise in County Offaly, a monastery founded by ... Read More

Glendalough: a beautiful monastic centre in Ireland Our first visit of the day on the second day of our Exploring Ireland tours was to Glendalough, one of the most beautiful places in the vicinity of Dublin city. ... Read More

Ireland Diary 2019 - the Liffey in Dublin “Exploring Ireland” is Peter Sommer Travels’ first Irish itinerary, running only for the second time in 2019. We followed those precedents, not describing every day in detail (just check our ... Read More

Dún Aonghasa, Ireland Who built the fort of Dún Aonghasa on Inishmore in the Aran Islands - and why? The Aran Islands (Oileáin Árann) are essentially three limestone shelves protruding from Galway Bay ... Read More

The nativity in Irish "Celtic" Early Christian Art We have posted before about beautiful and interesting Christian and Byzantine depictions of the nativity, the very event Christmas celebrates. That article offered a short summary of the history of ... Read More