Kilcolgan is synonymous with native oysters, the famed 'Galway Bay oysters'. Kellys are not only highly respected suppliers to hotels and restaurants in Ireland and abroad (including Rick Stein), but you can also buy them online (Oct-Apr) in smaller qu ... more...
The man behind this evocatively named product is Aran Islands native, Tomás Poil, from the small island of Inis Oirr.
His love of fudge all began with the treats his granny used to send him when he went away to school, but since starting to mak ... more...
Butchers / Internet/Phone Mail Order / Meat & Game
O'Doherty's shop is a model Northern Ireland butchers and you can buy many good things here, including Aberdeen Angus beef from cattle reared naturally on the shores of Lough Erne, and gamefrom local estates. But there is one product that attracts cus ... more...
Slow Food Ireland members Caroline and Joe Rigney rear free range rare breed pigs such as Tamworth and Saddlebacks on their west Limerick farm, and also have a Farm Shop, where their pork products, Curraghchase Meats, are the star of the show.
Hand ma ... more...
Established in 1989, Birgitta and Peter Curtin's Burren Smokehouse is most famous for their organic smoked salmon. They exclusively use the renowned Organic Salmon from Ireland’s west coast and it is among Ireland's finest.
You can taste it at t ... more...
This extraordinary place is well worth a visit, whether to attend one of its courses - covering a wide range of life skills, including cookery courses, and offered on a regular basis - or just to have a look.
Their Eco-Shop offers seasonal produce fro ... more...
John Rogers leads an unlikely double life, practising as a Dublin barrister during the week - and also producing a premium range of seed oils on his 90-acre farm in County Meath.
Set on a hillside overlooking the River Boyne, with the ancient passage ... more...
Wilma O’Connor started making the traditional gouda-style cheeses of her native Holland here in the 1980s and now has a small all-year production of both plain and flavoured cheese.
Sold as Wilma’s Killorglin Cheese and Wilma’s Killo ... more...
A familiar brand to two generations, Peadar and Mairin O’Lionaird’s preserving company Folláin (‘Wholesome’) was established in 1983 and is one of the earliest and best loved of Ireland’s new wave of small, quality ... more...
Craig and Karen Shipman had been making cider for friends and family for years before they started to sell it to the public in 2008.
Toby’s Handcrafted Cider is made only from apples grown within walking distance of the farm. From apple tree to ... more...
Our book Ireland for Food Lovers is divided into seven tourist regions and lists just 20 special places to eat and stay in each one - except the South-West, which is so important in both tourism and food terms that Cork and Kerry are given extra coverage, with each counting as a sub-region. The following establishments are great places to stay and especially known for their delicious home produced and local food
Flowers are perfect for special gifts - but not all flowers are equal. Fresh, lively, seasonal flowers from a local grower will out-class the superficial perfection of imported ones any day - and many of our home grown blooms have beautiful natural fragrance too, which is rarely the case with those flown in from afar...
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With a rich historical and maritime legacy, East Cork has a truly unique variety of attractions to offer the visitor.
It is a haven for family holidays with a huge range of activities and attractions to keep the whole family entertained for hours.
In this extensive county, the towns and villages have their own distinctive character. In West Cork, their spirit is preserved in the vigour of the landscape with the handsome coastline where the light of the famous Fastnet Rock swings across tumbling ocean and spray-tossed headland. The county is a repository of the good things of life, a treasure chest of the finest farm produce, and the very best of seafood, brought to market by skilled specialists.
The town of Killarney is where the Ring of Kerry begins and ends for many, among the lakes and mountains where they are re-establishing the enormous white-tailed sea eagle, has long been a magnet for visitors. Across the purple mountains from Killarney, the lovely little town of Kenmare in South Kerry is both a gourmet focus, and another excellent touring centre. As one of the prettiest places in Ireland, Kenmare puts the emphasis on civic pride.
That Galway Bay coastline in Co. Clare is where The Burren, the fantastical North Clare moonscape of limestone which is home to so much unexpectedly exotic flora, comes plunging spectacularly towards the sea around the attractive village of Ballyvaughan.
Connemara, the Land of the Sea, where earth, rock and ocean intermix in one of Ireland's most extraordinary landscapes, and is now as ever a place of angling renown - you're very quickly into the high ground and moorland which sweep up to the Twelve Bens and other splendid peaks, wonderful mountains which enthusiasts would claim as the most beautiful in all Ireland. Beyond, to the south, the Aran Islands are a place apart.
Rivers often divide one county from another, but Fermanagh is divided - or linked if you prefer - throughout its length by the handsome waters of the River Erne, both river and lake. Southeast of the historic county town of Enniskillen, Upper Lough Erne is a maze of small waterways meandering their way into Fermanagh from the Erne'e source in County Cavan.
Co Cavan shares the 667 m peak of Cuilcagh with neighbouring Fermanagh. No ordinary mountain, this - it has underground streams which eventually become the headwaters of the lordly River Shannon, Ireland's longest river that passes south through many counties before exiting at the mighty estuary in Limerick. A magnet for tourism now with boating, fishing, cycling and walking-a-plenty.
Between the sheltered bays at the foot of the Glens of Antrim, the sea cliffs of the headlands soar with remarkable rock formations which, on the North Coast, provide the setting for the Carrick-a-Rede rope bridge and the Giant's Causeway.
A selective companion guide to our famous broad-based online collection, the ‘glovebox bible’ includes a uniquely diverse range of Ireland's greatest places to ...