Slieve Gullion

Slieve Gullion - Foxgloves

Slieve Gullion (County Armagh) in high summer with stately foxgloves and the evocative sounds of honey-bees.

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Galway Harbour

Galway Harbour

Galway harbour plays host to yachts, motor cruisers and a variety of other sea-going vessels.

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Glendalough Round Tower

Glendalough Round Tower

(County Wicklow)

Glendalough round tower is approximately 30 metres high. Originally built as a bell-tower (belfry), it had six timber floors connected by ladders.

"A tall, round tower (at Glendalough) rises above the trees at the lakeside, one of those towers peculiar to Ireland, and built nearly 1,000 years ago as a belfry and refuge from the Danes. The doors are high up in these towers, so that refugees could pull up the ladder after them, and feel secure from attack."
H.V. Morton - 'In Search of Ireland' (1930)

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Meeting of the Waters, Wicklow

Meeting of the Waters, Wicklow

The Meeting of the Waters, immortalised in verse by Ireland's national poet Thomas Moore, is situated in the beautiful Vale of Avoca in County Wicklow

'The Meeting of the Waters'
Thomas Moore (1779–1852)

THERE is not in the wide world a valley so sweet
As that vale in whose bosom the bright waters meet;
Oh! the last rays of feeling and life must depart,
Ere the bloom of that valley shall fade from my heart.

Yet it was not that nature had shed o’er the scene
Her purest of crystal and brightest of green;
’Twas not her soft magic of streamlet or hill,
Oh! no—it was something more exquisite still.

’Twas that friends, the beloved of my bosom, were near,
Who made every dear scene of enchantment more dear,
And who felt how the best charms of nature improve,
When we see them reflected from looks that we love.

Sweet vale of Avoca! how calm could I rest
In thy bosom of shade, with the friends I love best,
Where the storms that we feel in this cold world should cease,
And our hearts, like thy waters, be mingled in peace.

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