For more than two centuries, this family-run establishment has been serving up some of Ireland's best oysters.

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

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

These moss-covered medieval ruins tower atop the smallest of Ireland's Aran Islands.

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

A sacred well steeped in Pagan roots on the West Coast of Ireland.

A monument to a 19th-century Irish woman whose murder inspired several literary works.

An Irish town has built a statue to a silent film actor simply thanks to the holidays he once spent there.

Just a few miles off the western coast of Ireland lies an isle steeped in Irish literary history.

Perfectly preserved ancient monastery in an impossibly dramatic location on a rocky island in the Atlantic.

An ancient holy well said to be used by the patron saint of sailors and travelers, lost in the boggy west of Valentia Island.

An abandoned faux-pub made famous by a Guinness commercial.

This beautiful site is where the first transatlantic telegraph was sent from.

Petrified footprints of one of the very first vertebrates to walk on land.

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

A stunning medieval castle owned and restored by the famed actor Jeremy Irons.

An oddly conical beacon perched atop beautiful Irish cliffs.

One of the most popular megalithic sites in Ireland stands as a humbler version of Stonehenge.

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

This memorial was created by an Irish nurse who lived in New York City during 9/11.

Inside Cork's Kent station stands its country's longest-serving postbox.

This Irish museum in a historic 19th century market pays tribute to the glory of butter.

An important landmark in the history of algebraic logic.

This 19th-century prison once held Irish revolutionary Constance Markievicz, writer Frank O’Connor, and a nine-year-old pickpocket.