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

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

Fantastic stainless steel dragon gates complete with mesh wings.

This Neolithic passage tomb forms part of a World Heritage Site.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The modern birthplace of Irish freedom.

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

The severed head of a 17th-century Irish martyr lies within an intricate golden shrine.

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

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

The remains of this deep, dark mine have left behind a haunting rocky warren of tunnels.

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

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

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

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

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

Huge standing stones mark a site of megalithic mystery.

This single room has survived the centuries with almost no deterioration.