Day Tours from Dublin takes the reader on twenty itineraries, all accessible in a single day by car from anywhere in the city. It includes such destinations as Avondale, Courtown Harbour, Ballitore and Moone, Birr Castle, Clonmacnoise, Tullynally, Newgrange and Slieve Gullion.
Each route is described in detail in Michael Fewer's inimitable, lucid and compelling prose. He writes knowledgeably of history, folklore and, in particular, the built environment. In the Ballitore and the Moone tour, for instance, you learn that the Dublin Gliding Club, whose gates you pass, welcomes visitors; that Ballymore Eustace was the first Norman town on the Liffey protecting a river crossing; and that in Killeen Cormac you can find the grave of King Cormac of Munster.
Day Tours from Dublin is the perfect family guide and will appeal to the growing market for offbeat leisure activity in the greater Dublin region.
- ISBN13 9780717138203
- Publish Date 25 April 2006
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 17 June 2010
- Publish Country IE
- Publisher Gill
- Imprint Gill Books
- Format Paperback
- Pages 200
- Language English