Good news for participants to our mid-March travel retreat – majestic Glenveagh National Park, one of excursions they will enjoy during the retreat, has just been named one of Ireland’s most interesting tourism attractions.
It received a Gold Excellence Award and National Heritage Awards at the recent CIE International Awards of Excellence.
Glenveagh (from the Irish Gleann Bheatha, meaning 'glen of the birches’) is the second largest national park in Ireland. Located scenically on the shore of Lough Veagh (Loch Ghleann Bheatha), it is regarded as one of Ireland’s outstanding horticultural masterpieces, displaying a multitude of exotic and delicate plants from exotic places such as Chile, Madeira and Tasmania all sheltered by windbreaks of pine trees and ornamental rhododendrons.
