Our cottage in the hills outside the seaside
village of Kincasslagh is situated in Belcruit in the northwest of Ireland.
This cottage is available for rent all seasons.
This friendly, quiet neighbourhood is perfect for walkers,
swimmers, fishermen, painters, photographers, Irish
pub music fans, links golfers(full 18 hole on Cruit Island) and nature lovers. Terrific mountain
views, perfect peace and less than 5 miles from a resort town
"Dungloe" that's well equipped with grocers, craft shops and
several pubs.
To see more about this cottage, leisure attractions in this area of
Donegal, and costs and availability in the 2010 season, click on the sections
below:
In the 2010/11 season, we will rent the cottage, fully
equipped with bed linen, tableware and so on. Price includes your electricity
and bed linen.
1st of January till 1st May
350,-- Euro
1st of May till
30th of June
400,-- Euro
30th of June till 30th of August
500,-- Euro
30th of August till
1th of October
400,-- Euro
1th of October till
31st of December
350,-- Euro
Christmas, Easter
and New Year
450,-- Euro
Weekend
250,--
Euro
Bank holiday
weekend
300,-- Euro
To figure out what that comes to in YOUR national currency, use the instant converter
on this website: Universal Currency Converter at < http://www.xe.net/ucc/>
Availability
We live in Holland and use the
cottage ourselves for a couple of weeks every year. We rent it out to others the rest of the year.
When you contact us by email, please specify
which actual week you have in mind, so that we can clarify whether the dates
you want are still available. In high season we only rent by the week (Saturday to Saturday).
When is Teac Aine on Belcruit available?
Blank weeks are still available; weeks that are shaded in yellow are NOT available
(they have already been booked).
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Our cottage is on the edge of a
Gaeltacht, one of the last
regions in Ireland where Irish is still spoken as a first language. It is a
popular holiday area for Europeans interested in Irish ecology and culture and
within easy reach of:
The easiest access to our cottage
is from Belfast airport. However, the cottage is not in Northern Ireland. It's
in the Republic. It is about a two hour drive to our cottage from Belfast
international airport, which is actually located several miles outside of
Belfast city, in the countryside, to the west of the city.
Our local airport is
Carrickfinn airport, which provides flights from Dublin, Glasgow and
Rotterdam (the Netherlands). Flights from Rotterdam will only be available in Summer.
Car rental available at airport.
Our cottage is about an hour and a half from the border
with Northern Ireland, which is outside the city of Derry / Londonderry.
However, there are no border guards or customs, so you don't really notice when
you have crossed over (until you start seeing road signs in Irish, which means
you are in the Republic).
It takes about five hours to drive northwest to
the cottage from Dublin airport. And it is a long day's drive north (8
hours ?), up the very picturesque west coast, from Shannon airport.
The local singer Daniel O'Donnell
was born in
Kincasslagh,
County Donegal,
Ireland, the son of Francis and Julia O'Donnell. In this site they hope
to tell you a little about Daniel, where he comes from and what life was
like for him growing up. A lot of what you read in this section will be
taken from Daniels book “My Story”, so you may have read it before.
Donegal
weather -five day forecast Keep up to date on the most popular topic of
conversation in Donegal! Please note that temperatures quoted are in Celsius.
As for accuracy.well, on the subject of weather, Irish hope springs
eternal.
Cultural Donegal A
website that highlights Donegal tourist attractions that focus on more cultural
and environmental issues.
The An Grianan
Theatre Information about what's on (live concerts and theatre) at the
prime performing space in Letterkenny, the "big town" that's about 45 minutes from our cottage.
Donegal
County Official website of the county tourism board, with links to several
local commercial
The Donegal People The
weekly newspaper for County Donegal, published every Friday.
The Donegal Fiddle
Pages
Irish fiddle music is heard the world over, whether it’s at a trad pub session, where fiddlers and other musicians gather to play for an evening’s fun, or on a professional setting at a ceilidh, concert or festival.
Donegal Town - official website
Official tourism website of Donegal Town, the county capital, which is about 90
minutes south of our cottage, close to Sligo.
General Irish travel guide sites
Visit Dublin
Official tourism
website of the City of Dublin, with very useful and detailed info (phone and
fax numbers, opening hours and admission fees) on all the major tourist
attractions.
Golf, fishing and other Irish recreation websites
Links of Heaven
A very well
organized and informative guide to the 130 top golf courses in Ireland. The two
courses listed in this website that are within easy driving distance of our
cottage are two well-known international competition courses, Rosapenna and
Portsalon. There are also several other, less pricey but still pleasant golf
courses in our neighbourhood, which aren't included in this list of prestige
courses.
Excellent summary of the famine that was
responsible for sending so many Irish emigrants to Canada and the USA in the
1840s, with many extracts from contemporary news reports and diaries.
A Heritage Canada (government agency) website about the legacy of
Grosse Ile, the quarantine island near Quebec City where the Irish coffin ships
docked on arrival in Canada during the Famine years.
Summaries and extracts from the National
Archives in Dublin about official relief and poor laws during the Famine
era.
The 1845-50 Potato
Famine by Jim Donnelly A million people are said to have died of hunger
in Ireland in the late 1840's, on the doorstep of the world's richest nation.
Jim Donnelly describes how.
The Discovery Programme is an Irish research Foundation
devoted to analysis of the period in Ireland between c.1200 BC to c.550 AD,
with a focus on Tara, West Munster, stone forts on the west coast, and hill
forts of Cork and Limerick. This well designed website provides good general
info and visuals on the major ancient monuments in Ireland.
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Do you have a favourite Irish website you would you like to recommend? Email
the URL to us and we will give it look and possibly add it here as a link.
