I purchased this book as a ROAD travel guide for exploring the country,expecting good local maps. The book consists of 100 pages of very brief comments on the attractions in each area, and 15 practically useles maps. No local secondary routes to explore an area are included, no walking maps of an area. Just useless major roads.

Another review here refers to an old edition of this book, it is no longer available. The Irish publishers have taken on board the criticism and introduced much better and more detailed maps - as a result a genuinely useable road atlas has now been incorporated in the latest edition of the guide, as well as a raft of new photographs by the world renowned photographer Anthony Cassidy.