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For all your information needs on Inishowen contact the number above or call into the Tourist Office.

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The road passes through high, forested ground. The highest point, Maghera Mountain to the left, is the site of a television mast. The village has the remains of a medieval parish church (St. Moculla). There are several prehistoric gallery graves in the vicinity.

Tulla is a fishing centre, with a number of small lakes dotted about which give good sport. The area is, in fact, known as the Clare Lakelands, a country of lakes and hills, the latter known as drumlins. The village is buil...

The captivating Mall, where the re-routed Carrowbeg river flows through Westport on its way to the sea in Clew Bay, is a splendid example of the contributions made to Irish towns by enlightened landlords of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. In this instance, it was the Brownes, later Earls of Altamont, who beautified Westport in many ways and ultimately opened up their own home, Westport House, for public view....

Feakle is doubly famous as the place in which the poet Brian Merriman taught as a School-master and as the home of Biddy Early, the wise woman or witch about whom Augusta Lady Gregory collected much traditional lore and published it in her Visions and Beliefs of the West of Ireland.

Brian Merriman was neither born nor did he die in Feakle (born Ennistymon 1749, died Limerick 1805) but he chose to be buried here where he had spent many years and made the location and background of his on...

The county Down combines so much of the beauty and variety of Northern Ireland within its borders, including St. Patricks Country, The Bronte Homelands, The Mourne Mountains and the Heart of Down. You can follow in St. Patrick's first footsteps on Irish soil from the spot at Ringbane on the shore of Strangford Lough, where he landed in AD 432, via Saul where he preached his first sermon, to Downpatrick where he built a little church.

Slieve Patrick hill has a huge statue (within bro...

Oranmore, on the shores of Galway Bay, is a rapidly expanding town adjacent to many tourist facilities....

Often described as the - Gateway To Connemara - and located on the upper shores of Lough Corrib, Oughterard is famous as one of Irelands leading angling resorts.

Apart from first-class salmon and trout angling, the Corrib also affords endless opportunities for excursions to its many Islands. Oughterard is also an excellent centre for exploring the beauty spots of the Twelve Bens, Maamturk and Cloosh Mountains....

Borrisoleigh ( the burgage or Norman borough of Ileigh barony), a small market town on the Nenagh-Thurles road, has some Georgian architecture and traditional shopfronts. As you enter a pair of red sandstone houses catch the eye. Through the arched gateway beside them is a ruined rectangular 15th century tower house - a de Burgo fortress. Of most interest is an inscribed slab inserted into the gable of the sandstone house with the names of Richard Burke and Ellice Hurley, 1643, clearly legible...

Today Ballinasloe is the main town is east Galway. A prosperous and expanding centre on the main Dublin/Galway road which serves as a commercial centre for the vital agricultural districts all around, and for those engaged in the breeding of bloodstock on the rick limestone land of the Central Plain.

Ballinasloe Horse Fair in October has achieved a world wide reputation, and the traditional event has now grown into an annual eight day carnival and festival. Ballinasloe is also the centre...