Attraction in Republic of Ireland
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Coole Park near Gort in County Galway was the country estate of Lady Augusta Gregory, co-founder of the Abbey Theatre and one of the central figures of the Irish Literary Revival…
Lough Key Forest Park Roscommon County Roscommon • F52 V272Lough Key Forest Park Roscommon is one of those places that quietly captures the character of the British landscape. The surrounding landscape provides a strong sense of place…
Céide Fields Mayo F26 E8X6The Ceide Fields on the north Mayo coast near Ballycastle is the most extensive prehistoric landscape in the world, a Neolithic farming system of field walls, house sites and…
Hill of Tara Meath County Meath • C15 DV89The Hill of Tara in County Meath is the most symbolically important site in Irish history and mythology, a low but commanding hill in the fertile Boyne Valley that served as the…
Lissadell House Sligo F91 KT27Lissadell House on the shores of Sligo Bay in County Sligo is a Greek Revival country house of the 1830s whose significance in Irish cultural history far exceeds its architectural…
Powerscourt Estate County Wicklow • A98 FT28Powerscourt Estate in County Wicklow is home to one of the most celebrated gardens in Ireland and one of the finest country house gardens in Europe. The estate lies in the…
Thoor Ballylee Galway County Galway • H53 NH93Thoor Ballylee near Gort in County Galway is a medieval tower house that was the summer home of the Nobel Prize-winning poet W B Yeats from 1917 until the late 1920s, a…
Carrowmore Megalithic Cemetery County Sligo • F91 T8V7Carrowmore near Sligo town is the largest and one of the oldest megalithic cemetery complexes in Ireland, a collection of over sixty prehistoric monuments including passage tombs…
Inishmore Aran Islands H91 6P2TInishmore, or Inis Mór in Irish, is the largest of the three Aran Islands lying across the mouth of Galway Bay off the west coast of Ireland, and it is one of the most remarkable…
Bantry House Cork County Cork • P75 TP03Bantry House stands on the shore of Bantry Bay in County Cork, one of the largest natural harbours in the world, and is one of the finest and most beautifully situated country…
Hook Head Lighthouse County Wexford • Y34 KX89Hook Head Lighthouse at the tip of the Hook Peninsula in County Wexford is one of the oldest operational lighthouses in the world, a tower begun in the twelfth century by William…
Kylemore Abbey Connemara County Galway • H91 V922Kylemore Abbey stands in one of the most dramatically beautiful settings in Ireland, a Victorian neo-Gothic castle reflected in the still waters of Pollacapall Lough beneath the…
Rock of Cashel Tipperary County Tipperary • E25 Y396The Rock of Cashel in County Tipperary is the most impressive and most dramatically sited medieval ecclesiastical complex in Ireland, a group of tenth to thirteenth-century…
Monasterboice County Louth County Louth • A92 N7K1Monasterboice in County Louth is one of the most important early Christian monastic sites in Ireland, containing two of the finest high crosses in the world: the West Cross and…
Glendalough Wicklow County Wicklow • A98 W9FHGlendalough, meaning the valley of the two lakes in Irish, is one of the most important and most visited early Christian monastic sites in Ireland, a settlement established in the…