History & ruins
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Spike Island, County Cork
An island fortress and prison in Cork Harbour.
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Kilmainham Gaol
A former prison central to Ireland’s fight for independence.
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Monasterboice
A monastic site with some of Ireland’s finest high crosses.
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Poulnabrone dolmen
A portal tomb over 5,000 years old in the Burren.
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Clonmacnoise
A monastic site with round towers and high crosses on the Shannon.
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Hill of Tara
The ancient seat of the High Kings of Ireland.
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Newgrange
A 5,000-year-old passage tomb, older than Stonehenge and the pyramids.
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Glendalough
A monastic city founded by St Kevin, set between two lakes in the Wicklow Mountains.
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Hook Lighthouse
One of the oldest working lighthouses in the world, on the Hook Peninsula.
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Dún Aonghasa
A prehistoric stone fort on the edge of a 100 m cliff on Inis Mór.