Places Egao Wants to Go

This 14th century tower house was once the home of Irish poet W.B. Yeats.

Oliver Cromwell once seized the land under this house, which included the ruins of a medieval abbey that the owner used to build his stately home.

Fluffy and friendly alpacas nestled against the border of the beautiful Connemara region.

Behemoth, cannon-like telescope operated by generations of Irish earls.

This European portal tomb has a capstone that weighs around 150 tons.

A particularly disconcerting tribute to Irish martyrs.

On the Irish coast, 18 members of the Howard family are eternally resting in an Egyptian pyramid.

The skeleton of a whale that beached itself in this Irish town is now on display in their public park.

Mortarless walls that stretch for miles are a lovely solution for creating grazing land in the harsh terrain of the Aran Islands.

After it was swallowed by a Georgian mansion, this medieval castle remained forgotten for centuries.

A proud bronze billy stands as an eternal symbol of Ireland's oldest festival, where a goat is made king.

Modern sundial uses ancient methods to tell time and date perfectly.

Some of the saint's blood and bones are said to reside in Dublin.

A devastating booze inferno poured through the streets, claiming several victims who drank it.

A collection of housewares from recent Irish history adjoined by a tower from ancient Irish history.

A steam trawler with a whiskey-soaked history driven ashore in 1960 resides rusty but still standing on the shoreline.

Catholics make up 84% of Ireland's population but this Dublin museum remembers the small but important Jewish community.

This burial pyramid in central Ireland is thousands of miles and thousands of years away from its Egyptian inspiration.

Achill's most recently abandoned village dates back to to the Age of Enlightenment.

Certain traditions prevail on the least-visited island of the Aran Islands.

An outstanding and haunting glimpse of the horrors of the Great Famine of Ireland.

An ancient chamber filled with wonderful rock art and a Neolithic carving of a human face.

A hugely vast Irish landscape of barren rock that stretches for miles.

You can see three Irish counties from this Neolithic hillside fort, once the seat of the Kingdom of Ailech.