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Maritime county in the extreme northeast, in the province of Ulster, one of the six counties of Northern Ireland. The county has an area of 1,092 square miles and a population of 562,216. Only twenty miles across the Irish Sea from Scotland at its closest point, Antrim has served as a conduit linking the two [...]
One of the four provinces of Ireland. This Northwest province covers an area of 6838 square miles. It has a population of around 500,000. Connacht is the least arable but one of the most beautiful provinces of Ireland. Its name derives from the Connachta , followers of Conn of the Hundred Battles , a branch of the Venii tribe [...]
Waterford is a maritime county in the province of Munster. Covering 716 square miles , Waterford has a population of over 110,000. The county is bounded on the north by the River Suir, on the east by Waterford Harbour, and on the south by the Celtic Sea. The Knockmeal down (2,609 feet) and the Comeragh/Monavallagh mountains on [...]
Ireland’s second largest county, in the province of Connacht. Extending from the Atlantic to the River Shannon (area of 2,374 square miles), the county has a population of over 208,000. Galway City, the county capital, straddles the divide between the barren Irish-speaking Connemara to the west and the fertile farmland of the east. It is a vibrant, [...]
County Louth is a maritime county in the province of Leinster….woth seeing on tours of Ireland. Ireland’s smallest county, only 318 square miles, Louth is, however, more heavily populated than other larger counties because it has the major towns of Drogheda and Dundalk near both its northern and southern extremities. These two towns together account for [...]
Inland county in the province of Leinster. After Leitrim , the landlocked county of Longford (421 square miles) is the second least populated county in Ireland, with 31,500 inhabitants. Primarily agricultural, the county has some light industry and textile production. The reputation of being of being a flat midland county is not really justified. The western part, [...]