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

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

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

This colorful and fiery mural depicts the Irish folk story of the beloved hero Cuchulain.

This Bronze Age tomb is the centerpiece of a clearing within a beautiful Irish forest.

This 5,300-year-old tomb with mysterious carvings crowns an Irish mountain.

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

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

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

A restaurant with an extensive Irish whiskey bar also has several first editions of famous works by Irish authors.

An important pilgrimage site for pagans and early Christians, named for a Celtic goddess-turned-saint.

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

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

Just another ancient, mysterious Irish stone circle.

Ruins battered by centuries of war and disaster offer a wondrous glimpse of medieval Ireland.

This natural sea arch highlights Ireland's rugged coastal beauty.

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

At this cozy bar tucked down a hidden Galway backroad, Guinness makes the Gaelic come out.

This ancient Irish tower could easily have stood in for Rapunzel's prison.

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

A tribute to the incredible generosity the Choctaw Nation showed the Irish people during the Great Famine.

Huge standing stones mark a site of megalithic mystery.

This 30-foot pile of rocks may be the grave of a mythological Irish queen.

The ruins of a medieval monastery named after a type of tree.