Ireland’s white spaces: Skip crowded hotspots for Carlow, the Beara and these other Irish ‘dupe destinations’

Ireland’s white spaces: Skip crowded hotspots for Carlow, the Beara and these other Irish ‘dupe destinations’

I arrived into Bagenalstown, Co Carlow, for the first time in my life on a typically cool summer’s day. But the weather began to lift, and the sun started to emerge, as I pulled up along the quayside of a leafy canal.