This area of Dublin is a golfer’s paradise with no less than two excellent courses on offer. Grange Castle golf club (353 1 464 1039) is an 18 hole, par 71 course, over 155 acres of parkland with a beautiful backdrop of the Dublin Mountains. Newlands golf club (353 1 459 3498) is a fine modern club which enjoys a unique setting in a 17th Century parkland estate, 18 holes, par 71.
Angling enthusiasts are well catered for at the Corkagh Park Fishery (353 1 459 2622) which is the biggest leisure angling lake in Dublin, and is comprised of two lakes over seven acres of fishing space.
Corrupted from the Irish Ard Choill (high wood), Ardgillan was aptly named until the Rev Robert Tayleur paid labourers a penny a day to clear the land for his new home in 1737. The estate, with its Gothicised house situated in a 200 acre park abo ...
The Portmarnock Hotel and Golf Links is set in splendid surroundings overlooking the magnificent beach known as Velvet Strand. The house was originally owned by the Jameson family, famous for their Irish whiskey. Their home has been tastefully co ...
A 200 year old cottage on a farm high in the Dublin Mountains, with dramatic views over the city and bay, beautifully restored to provide a relaxing alternative to big city bustle.
First opened in 1890 the National Museum of Ireland for Archaeology is the national repository for all archaeological objects found in Ireland and home to over two million artefacts dating from 7,000BC to the 20th Century exhibited in seven galle ...
Located just 25 mins on the new M1 from the airport (compared to almost 45- 1 hr from southside Dublin) Terry McCoy’s renowned restaurant in the characterful fishing port of Skerries is in a converted banking premises, which adds to the atm ...
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