Partner Programme

For more information or to book a partner tour, please contact Fiona@venuesireland.com Partners are invited to attend the welcome reception on Sunday 15^th August in the Clarion Hotel. All partners will be provided with name badges for the welcome reception. Delegates should provide partner names on their online registration form.
Timoleague in West Cork, Ireland is a picturesque village which is situated just 30 miles from Cork City on the Kinsale to Clonakilty coast road. Perched at the edge of a long sea inlet this friendly tourist village is dominated by the ruins of a 13th century abbey. The abbey was founded by the Franciscan order in 1240 A.D., on the site of a 6th century monastic settlement founded by Saint Molaga. The name Timoleague comes from the Irish for House of Molaga (Tigh Molaga).
Clonakilty is a small town approximately 45 minutes away by road to the west of Cork City. The town is on the southern coast of the island, and is surrounded by hilly country devoted primarily to dairy farming. The centre of the town is considered particularly attractive with the fronts of the shops and restaurants painted in bright colours. LocaL attractions include the many sandy beaches such as Inchydoney, the musical pubs, The West Cork Model Railway Village where you can see life as it was in the 1940’s with the option of visiting the town in a colourful road train or the excavated ruin at Lios-na-gCon Ringfort
Blarney Castle was built nearly six hundred years ago by one of Ireland’s greatest chieftains, Cormac MacCarthy, and has been attracting attention beyond Munster ever since. Not all of that has been welcome, as Good Queen Bess and Oliver Cromwell could testify. But over the last few hundred years, thousands have travelled to Blarney, where according to local legend, by kissing the Blarney Stone at the top of the tower in the castle, bestows the gift of eloquence.