COUNTY KERRY County Kerry is known as “The Kingdom” in Ireland and includes the towns of Killarney, Kenmare, Sneem, Waterville, Cahersiveen, Caherdaniel, Dingle, Blennerville, and others. The name Kerry comes from the word “Ciarrai” which is pronounced more like “Keer-ree” and means “the people of Ciar.” “Ciar” itself is used to describe someone with a…
IRELAND’S CONNEMARA REGION After narrowly avoiding the destruction of Hurricane Ophelia back in 2017, my best friend and I excitedly arrived at the Connemara National Park in Ireland’s western County Galway. “Connemara” refers to the Connemara National Park as much as it does the entire region, which is largely a Gaeltacht. In Gaeltacht districts, the…
BACKSTORY My best friend and I had been having the time of our lives on a whirlwind tour from Dublin to Belfast, all through Northern Ireland up to Bushmills and the Giants Causeway, back down to the Republic to tour various small towns, and then some. We had met wonderful people, gotten insanely lost, butchered…
COUNTY WICKLOW County Wicklow is just south of Dublin, in County Dublin, on Ireland’s eastern coast. Its name comes from the Old Norse term Víkingaló which means “Viking’s Meadow” and that tracks because County Wicklow is so close to the counties that make up the Viking Triangle of Ireland. County Waterford, County Wexford, and County…
So Barry Lyndon, Vikings, Jurassic Park, and Cocaine Bear were filmed here? Say less.
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