Kilkenny, Ireland
Tullaherin Folk Museum and Round Tower
A collection of housewares from recent Irish history adjoined by a tower from ancient Irish history.
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Kilkenny, Ireland
A collection of housewares from recent Irish history adjoined by a tower from ancient Irish history.
Wicklow, Ireland
This 5,300-year-old tomb with mysterious carvings crowns an Irish mountain.
Kilkenny, Ireland
A standing relief of a Norman knight whose posture marks him as a Crusader.
Cashel, Ireland
The ruins of a medieval monastery named after a type of tree.
Corofin, Ireland
A hugely vast Irish landscape of barren rock that stretches for miles.
Inisheer, Ireland
A steam trawler with a whiskey-soaked history driven ashore in 1960 resides rusty but still standing on the shoreline.
Birr, Ireland
This burial pyramid in central Ireland is thousands of miles and thousands of years away from its Egyptian inspiration.
Athenry, Ireland
Ruins battered by centuries of war and disaster offer a wondrous glimpse of medieval Ireland.
Kerry, Ireland
An important pilgrimage site for pagans and early Christians, named for a Celtic goddess-turned-saint.
Tulsk, Ireland
This ancient Irish landscape boasts hundreds of legendary ruins.
Connemara, Ireland
A stunning Victorian abbey and walled garden on a lakefront.
Kerry, Ireland
Petrified footprints of one of the very first vertebrates to walk on land.
Dublin, Ireland
Though they've since been renamed, these two streets hint at Dublin's darker days.
Wicklow, Ireland
This ancient Irish tower could easily have stood in for Rapunzel's prison.
Carlingford, Ireland
The home of Ireland's last leprechauns is officially protected by the European Union.
Kerry, Ireland
Traveling this mountain pass reveals quaint stone buildings, stunning Irish scenery, and a bridge said to grant wishes.
Sligo, Ireland
This 30-foot pile of rocks may be the grave of a mythological Irish queen.
Lecarrow, Ireland
Wander among the abandoned ruins of this once-powerful medieval town.
Kerry, Ireland
This single room has survived the centuries with almost no deterioration.
Galway, Ireland
The ruins of an 800-year-old monastery boasts the tallest round tower in Ireland.
Dublin, Ireland
The somber sculptures commemorating Irish Famine on the river Liffey in Dublin.
County Donegal, Ireland
The world's toughest modern Christian pilgrimage leads directly to the gates of Hell.
Dooey, Ireland
A spectacular hidden beach in Ireland has the dark, disturbing nickname of "Murder Hole Beach."
Dublin, Ireland
More than 5,000 artifacts donated by the people of the city, plus a room entirely devoted to the band U2.