Series: Peak Experiences

Mount Leinster is the highest peak in the Blackstairs and one of the features that dominants its landscape is the ...

Jim Quirke lives in Kiloughternane, a small place that is very well known, and in this programme we hear a ...

In this programme we begin by focusing on unusual stones found around the mountain and end up talking about highwaymen. ...

In this programme in the series we explore how and when mountains were formed, their composition and where the name ...

The Blackstairs Mountains have been farmed all down through the years and in this programme, which forms part of the ...

In this program in the series we focus on the building of the waterworks at Raheenleigh. There are many rivers ...

Like all mountains, the Blackstairs by virtue of it's height and exposure, is not the most hospitable place to live ...

Fr Alfie Murphy, a retired priest living in Carbury Co Kildare and born and bred in Myshall Co Carlow, gives ...

Meeting Sunday was a big festival on the mountain back in the day and people used to make a living ...

Tragic incidents have occurred on the Blackstairs Mountains; there have been a few air crashes and then there was the ...