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

The modern birthplace of Irish freedom.

This ancient Irish landscape boasts hundreds of legendary ruins.

A devastating booze inferno poured through the streets, claiming several victims who drank it.

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

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

Oliver Cromwell once seized the land under this house, which included the ruins of a medieval abbey that the owner used to build his stately home.

This European portal tomb has a capstone that weighs around 150 tons.

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

The home of Ireland's last leprechauns is officially protected by the European Union.

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

Achill's most recently abandoned village dates back to to the Age of Enlightenment.

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

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

Though they've since been renamed, these two streets hint at Dublin's darker days.

Just another ancient, mysterious Irish stone circle.

Ireland's most remarkable collection of these curious cone-shaped houses is worth the buzz.

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

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

A spectacular hidden beach in Ireland has the dark, disturbing nickname of "Murder Hole Beach."

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

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

Huge standing stones mark a site of megalithic mystery.

The ruins of an 800-year-old monastery boasts the tallest round tower in Ireland.