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The oldest brick saltbox house in America.

A small plaque highlights the damage caused by German air raids during World War II.

Celebrated in poem, this tiny hidden cemetery has a big and grisly history.

The statue honors a beloved bird that once roamed St. George's Market.

This short bridge is the only thing connecting a tiny Irish island to the mainland.

This rare and ancient Christian relic is one of Ireland’s oldest freestanding stone crosses.

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

A gated cross stands on the site where an Irish revolutionary met his end.

A standing relief of a Norman knight whose posture marks him as a Crusader.

These imposing walls and towers look more like the ruins of a fortress than a monastery.

Once the longest bridge in Ireland, this rusting span sits abandoned and overrun by nature.

This ancient Irish religious site is covered in ancient carvings, many of which have barely aged.

This 18th-century fort surrounded by a moat was used to store gun powder and ammunition, and now sits in the middle of a large park in Dublin.

A particularly disconcerting tribute to Irish martyrs.

This courtly monument celebrates an influential comedian who turned taking the piss out of the powers-that-be into an art.

The house where the writer spent his formative years.

This pub built its reputation pouring post-shift pints for employees of the cemetery with which it shares a wall.

This is the largest cemetery in Ireland and the first cemetery museum in the world.

The somber sculptures commemorating Irish Famine on the river Liffey in Dublin.

The 19th-century pharmacy (now a used bookstore) was featured in James Joyce’s "Ulysses," and has changed very little to this day.

The oldest public library in Ireland.

The mummified heart of a saint lives on in this church—after a brief hiatus when it was stolen.

Experience what life was like in Ireland during the Viking and medieval ages.

Dublin's "Dead Zoo" serves as a window to Victorian museum design.