Travel in Ireland Guide

While most people visit Ireland for its Celtic and medieval traits, it’s landscape and country side, or it’s snake free environment on a land safari, imagining country music at Ireland’s country side, there is so much more than what the usual tourist guides to Ireland have. This had been a well kept secret by those of the surfing enthusiasts placing Ireland on the top of the surf spots in the world.

Ireland may not be famous for beach bums and endless sunshine, but it’s fabulous breathtaking coast and world class waves have made the island one of he top surfing and windsurfing spots in the world. Pros of surfers have come from all over the world just to gain access to Ireland’s challenging swells as well as the country had been hosting a couple of share in the surfing championships.

Another challenge for the surfers would be the damp, cold water that even during summer Ireland does not have an average of much more than 60 degrees in July and in August. In winter, it is most likely to drop at 50.

This is the a haven of the secret global hot spots that more than a few can be found in Ireland and almost all of them are on the western coast.

There is Bundoran in County Donegal that lies in the island’s northwest and is the phenomenon of Ireland’s surf scene. The town boasts a fabulous beach culture that offers a couple of surfing schools and yearly festivals that have been anchored by establishments with brands that had been transplanted from Bondi Beach California, and one of them would be Turfsurf Lodge.

Bundoran was one of the beaches in Ireland that has hosted a European Surfing Championship and a famous Quicksilver World Masters in 2001, and those high-profile events just sprung because of Ireland’s surfing popularity not only within the territory of Ireland but with international surfers and that made the Irish eager to learn as the insiders say.

The best time to surf the Ireland surf spots would be around September to May each year when the waves are simply delightful to the eyes of the surfers.

Location: Western Europe, occupying five-sixths of the island of Ireland in the North Atlantic Ocean, west of Great Britain
Geographic coordinates: 53° 0′ N, 8° 0′ W
Coastline: 1,448 km km
Climate: temperate maritime; modified by North Atlantic Current; mild winters, cool summers; humid; overcast about half the time
Terrain: mostly level to rolling interior plain surrounded by rugged hills and low mountains; sea cliffs on west coast
Elevation: lowest point: Atlantic Ocean 0 m highest point: Carrauntoohil 1,041 m
Natural hazards: NA
Currency: euro (EUR)
Population: 4,015,676 (July 2005 est.)
Languages: English (official) is the language generally used, Irish (official) (Gaelic or Gaeilge) spoken mainly in areas located along the western seaboard
Capital: Dublin
Divisions: 26 counties; Carlow, Cavan, Clare, Cork, Donegal, Dublin, Galway, Kerry, Kildare, Kilkenny, Laois, Leitrim, Limerick, Longford, Louth, Mayo, Meath, Monaghan, Offaly, Roscommon, Sligo, Tipperary, Waterford, Westmeath, Wexford, Wicklow note: Cavan, Donegal, and Monaghan are part of Ulster Province