25/07/2024

​Tory island is one of the most spectacular places in Ireland, and if you have not yet visited, boost it immediately to the top of your to-do list. It lurks off the coast of Donegal, daring you to take it on. The ferry there is a forty-minute roller coaster, but you’ll find your land legs walking east to the magical end of the island, where the ghost of Balor haunts the caves and the sea stacks. Everything out here is giant-sized - the pebbles are boulders, the sheer and steep walls of the island yield to the incessant pounding of the wild waves. Yawning gashes swallow the ground and create magical doors to the Atlantic. There are few people here to disturb your rambles, but you’ll be warmly greeted at Tory’s pierside hotel when you’re done, with a well earned pint. The ferries run every day, the locals couldn’t be friendlier, and the whole island has an otherworldly beauty impossible to convey in any photograph, but we’ll try. Enjoy.
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