Green Ireland: Your Activities
February 28th, 2012 by admin
If you’re up to your neck in NY Energy rates and school permission forms maybe it’s time you took a vacation. Ever thought of Ireland? Particularly if you’re environmentally conscious you can really have a ball here – these are some of the greenest activities your family will love:
Bike Riding: The countryside of Ireland is notoriously green so why pollute its natural beauty with a hideous smart car? Get on a bike and meander all through the hills of Irelandit’s a great activity for kids, too.
Kiss the Blarney Stone: It’s pretty touristy, yes, but you’ll have to use your legs to make the ascent and the Blarney Stone is itself very green. It’s one of those things you can’t go to Ireland without doing so just suck it up and make it happen.
Drink Local: Beer makers in Ireland are becoming increasingly more conscious of their impact on the environment so try one of the country’s newest local beers dedicated to land preservation. You can’t get much fresher than hops grown just down the field handed to you by a man in a newly shorn vest.
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Clochn an Aifir, Clochn na bhFmharach, The Giant’s Causeway
August 13th, 2011 by admin
Do you love visiting the world’s most fantastic wonders? Are you fascinated by notable environmental landmarks? Do you have a passion for the most surreal destinations in Ireland? If so, read on for more information about one of Ireland’s greatest natural monuments – The Giant’s Causeway, or in Irish, Clochn an Aifir, Clochn na bhFmharach.
The Giant’s Causeway, located on the northeastern coast of Northern Ireland, is one of mother nature’s greatest displays of volcanic activity. It is made up of more than 40,000 basalt columns.Additional information can be found at http://theunwittingtraveller.wordpress.com/2011/07/13/the-giant25e225802599s-causeway-part-geology-25e225802593-part-mythology/. These columns create (more…)
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Skellig Michael Otherwise Known As Great Skellig
August 11th, 2011 by admin
Soaring up from the Atlantic Ocean nine miles off the coast of Ireland, the rocky Skellig Islands, Skellig Michael and Small Skellig, are fascinating to visit for both history buffs and nature lovers. Skellig Michael, otherwise known as Great Skellig, is the site of an ancient Gaelic monastery, which was designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1996. First occupied in the 7th century and surviving six centuries of both Atlantic gales and Viking raids, the monastery on Skellig Michael was only abandoned in the 13th century. The beehive-like stone < (more…)
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Br na Boinne Or Bend Of The Boyne
August 10th, 2011 by admin
The Br na Boinne, or the Palace of the Boyne, is a World Heritage Site located on the eastern coast of Ireland, in the county of Meath. It is one of Europe’s most important sites from the Middle Stone Age (the 35,000s B.C.E.), and consists of a collection of stones, tombs, and henges. The site is of great interest to archeoastronomers (archeologists who study ancient methods of astronomy) because it shows how much the people who (more…)
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Ireland: A Home To Three World Heritage Sites
August 6th, 2011 by admin
The three World Heritage sites in Ireland are Skellig Michael, Bend of the Boyne and Giant’s Causeway.. In reference to Skellig Michael, George Bernard Shaw said it is “An incredible, impossible, mad place. I tell you the thing does not belong to any world that you and I have ever lived or worked in; it is part of our dream world.”
Skellig Michael located in County Kerry is the remains of a monastery believed to have been associated with 7th century Irish Christians. The structure (more…)
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