Kilkee, Ireland Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

KILKEE , over on the Atlantic coast and eight miles northwest of Kilrush, is a small, busy holiday town with all the amenities you'd expect: cheap cafés, restaurants, amusements and nightlife. Popular with the bucket-and-spade brigade, the town comes as a healthy piece of normality if the offbeat romanticism of the west coast has become too much. The westerly tip of the town's magnificent golden beach, set below a dramatic cliff, meets an apron of laminated rock strata known as the Duggerna Rocks, which protects it from the ravages of the Atlantic. Here, when the tide is out, deep, clear pollock … more »