It is located above the River Ellen, just outside the Lake District National Park, in the area locally called Back o'Skiddaw, with views to the Caldbeck Fells.

Ireby has a music festival attracting a wide range of popular musicians and capacity audiences.

[citation needed] The village pub was reopened in 2016 after a long period of closure,[2] it was a haunt of John Peel.

[4] In the 2024 United Kingdom general election, under new constituency boundaries Penrith and Solway went back to Labour.

[7][8] A documentary series, Cumbrian Tales, was commissioned by the BBC in 1998, but taken off air after one episode due to "conflict of interest".