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Romantic story Of McDermott Castle Lough Key

Visiting Lough Key for McDermott Castle One of our favourite places to visit is Lough Key Forest Park. We often spend many a afternoon there exploring the 350 hectare site. What always captures my imagination is the lonely castle ruins lying out in the Lough McDermott Castle. The story of Una So here is a […]

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Roscommon Castle, Roscommon, Ireland

Roscommon Castle Set in the heart of the farming town of Roscommon lies Roscommon Castle and the Loughnaneane park. An essential piece of history for the whole town and one that has stood the course time. It is constantly being preserved so this iconic landmark is here to stay forever. As soon as I heard […]

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Elephant grave Castlerea – Story of Cindy the elephant

A elephant grave in Castlerea ? Who is this Cindy the elephant? and why is she buried in the small town of Castlerea County Roscommon? I know right this sounds strange, so much so we decided to take a walk down to have a look and see what we could find out. Walking the Castlerea […]

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The Historical Ballinafad Castle Ruins

Lazy morning drive We went for a lazy morning drive on Saturday in search of a bit of heritage and history. It’s often a thing we like to do here as there is so much to see and do off the beaten track in the west of Ireland. We came across this great little Castle […]

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Lough Key Forest Park, Roscommon, Ireland

Lough Key Forest Park We waited a week but it happened the sun was shining!!! We quickly packed up some essentials and jumped into our car decided to head to the ever popular and known as one of Roscommon’s number one tourist attractions Lough Key Forest & activity Park. A great attraction for a family […]

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Slieve Bawn Wind Farm Walk Roscommon

When we moved into our new house in Roscommon one thing holding us back where the site of wind turbines on the Slieve Bawn hills directly back from our back garden. Although a dislike for the looks of them, with an interest an renewable energy we decided to embrace them and thought why not go […]

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The Best Things To Do In Clifden Co Galway

Clifden Clifden is the main town in the Connemara region of Co Galway a base for many coming out west to visit this beautiful and wild area. Popular summer destination with tourist and locals to see the unique landscape. Home to a lot great hikes, views and a huge amount of history. Known for some […]

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Interview With Moher Cottage, Cliffs of Moher

Support Small Business So its finally here the first in the our series, supporting small businesses. A drive we decided to start in 2022 to highlight and promote small businesses we have found on our travels. These travels have taken us from little places like Tamborine Mountain Australia to the back streets Hong Kong to […]

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Signal Bar Restaurant Clifden Review

Insight The Signal bar restaurant Clifden is part of the Clifden Staion House Hotel. The venueis located in the the Old station masters building and still respects the history of this once steam train station. The building still has old all the old station signs and memorabilia inside and out.for any train enthusiasts there is […]

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Clifden Castle, Connemara

Whilst taking a drive across the Sky Road from Cifden we stumbled down the hill what seemed to be a Castle ruins. Later that night after a bit of research it appeared to be the Clifden Castle ruins. We decided the next day we would drive back and go see how easy access  was and […]