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Lis Ard Garden cover a huge area of 200 acres devoted to Irish Nature. The Garden have woodlands, waterfalls, medows and lakes. All of these aspects give visitors a truely enjoyable experience of tranquility and calmness. The Huge, ancient trees of 150 years old, surround you like the walls of a catherdral. The whole gardens leaves Man in the centre of nature.
Here the stage is set for fascinating light shows in an atmosphere of heavenly silience. This can be...

The Blackwater Way comprises two sections: Avondhu and Duhallow. This varied trail includes the lower slopes of the Knockmealdown Mountains. It drops through the green lanes and boreens of sparsely populated hill farms to the historic settlements and rich farm and woodland of the Balckwater Valley.

It rises again onto the slopes of the Nagle Hills, where there are superb views over the Munster Plains, then to Shrone, just north of the Paps Mountains, which offers a contrast of wild b...

The Beara Way, incorporating part of the O'Sullivan Beara Way, is a long distance walking route around the highly spectacular peninsula with a large concentration of historical and archaeological sites en route.
The main towns on the route are Kenmare, Glengarriff and Castletownbere (a commercial fishing port and an excellent centre for exploring the peninsula).

There are a number of colourful villages in between: Allihies, Ardgroom, Adrigole and Eyeries. Bere and Dursey, t...