Slow travel in Ireland.
8 places on the quieter side of Ireland — chosen for low visitor pressure, reachable by land, and worth more nights than a stopover.
Burren Food Trail
A network of farmhouse cheesemakers, smokehouses, oyster beds and chef-led kitchens mapped across the grey limestone karst of north County Clare.
Carlingford & Cooley Peninsula
A medieval walled port on the border-water of Carlingford Lough: Norman castle, Old Norse name, and a peninsula of mountain track behind it.
Cavan
The Lakeland County: 365 lakes scattered through drumlin country, with the source of the Shannon hidden on a mountain along the Northern Ireland border.
Clonakilty
A West Cork market town built on black pudding, Michael Collins's birthplace, and a pub that drew Ireland's best traditional players for forty years.
Great Western Greenway
Ireland's longest off-road greenway: 42 km along Clew Bay from Westport to Achill, on the trackbed of the Achill railway that closed in 1937.
Loop Head
A 30-kilometre Atlantic peninsula at the mouth of the Shannon: a working lighthouse at its tip, and the western anchor of the Wild Atlantic Way.
Scattery Island
A small Shannon Estuary island with a sixth-century monastic settlement, an Irish round tower, a Napoleonic battery and no permanent residents since 1978.
Sheep's Head
A walking peninsula in West Cork: 88 km of waymarked old farm tracks between Bantry Bay and Dunmanus Bay, one farmhouse cheese, three villages.
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