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Ireland

413 places in Ireland, sorted into the categories that matter when you are planning: what each place is, when it is worth going, how long to allow and how to reach it.

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Newgrange, Ireland

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RegionNorthern Europe

CapitalDublin

Places written413

Categories covered5 of 5

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CurrencyEuro (EUR)

LanguagesEnglish, Irish

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Nature & outdoors (132) Landmarks & history (130) Museums & culture (78) Attractions & fun (37) Food & drink (36)

UNESCO heritage World Heritage Sites and living traditions on the UNESCO lists

UNESCO · Intangible heritage

Hurling and Gaelic Games

Hurling and Gaelic Games

UNESCO · Intangible heritage

Irish Harp Tradition

UNESCO · World Heritage

Newgrange

Newgrange

UNESCO · World Heritage

Skellig Michael

Skellig Michael

UNESCO · Intangible heritage

Uilleann Pipes

Nature & outdoors Waterfalls, lakes, canyons, national parks, beaches, caves and the trails that reach them.

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Achill Island

Achill Island

Aran Islands

Aran Islands

Ardmore Cliff Walk

Ards Forest Park

Arranmore Island

Assaranca Waterfall

Ballaghbeama Gap

Ballybunion Beach

Ballycotton Cliff Walk

Ballymastocker Bay

Barleycove Beach

Benbulbin

Benbulbin

Benwee Head

Bere Island

Black Valley

Bray to Greystones Cliff Walk

Bridges of Ross

Cape Clear Island

Carrauntoohil

Carrauntoohil

Clara Bog

Clare Island

Cliffs of Moher

Cliffs of Moher

Connemara

Connemara

Conor Pass

Cooley Peninsula

Copper Coast Geopark

Coumeenoole Beach

Coumshingaun Lake

Croagh Patrick

Croagh Patrick

Curracloe Beach

Dalkey and Killiney Hill

Derrigimlagh Bog

Derrynane Beach

Diamond Hill

Dingle Peninsula

Dingle Peninsula

Dog's Bay and Gurteen Bay

Doolin Cave

Doolin Cave

Doolough Valley

Downpatrick Head

Downpatrick Head

coastal village

Dunmore East

Errigal

Erris Head

Fanore Beach

Five Finger Strand

Flaggy Shore

sea swimming spot

Forty Foot

lighthouse headland

Galley Head

Galtymore

Glen of Aherlow

Glencar Waterfall

Glengarriff Nature Reserve

Glengesh Pass

Gleniff Horseshoe

Gleninchaquin Park

Glenmacnass Waterfall

Glenveagh National Park

Glenveagh National Park

Gougane Barra

Gougane Barra

Great Sugar Loaf

Healy Pass

Horn Head

Howth Cliff Walk

Inch Beach

Inchydoney Beach

Inis Meain

Inis Oirr

Inishbofin

Inishturk

Ireland's Eye

Iveagh Gardens

Keem Bay

Kerry Cliffs

Kilkee Cliffs

Killarney National Park

Killarney National Park

Killary Harbour

Kinnagoe Bay

Knocknarea

Ladies View

Lambay Island

Loop Head

Loop Head

rewilded peatland

Lough Boora Discovery Park

Lough Corrib

Lough Corrib

Lough Derg

Lough Gill

Lough Hyne

Lough Inagh Valley

Lough Key Forest Park

Lough Oughter

Lough Tay

Lugnaquilla

MacGillycuddy's Reeks

Maghera Beach and Caves

Mahon Falls

Mahon Falls

County Waterford

Malin Head

Malin Head

Inishowen, County Donegal

Mamore Gap

river confluence

Meeting of the Waters

Minaun Cliffs

Mizen Head

Mizen Head

Moll's Gap

Mount Brandon

Mount Leinster

Mullaghmore Head

Mullet Peninsula

Nephin

North Bull Island

Old Head of Kinsale

Omey Island

Phoenix Park

Poisoned Glen

Ring of Kerry

Ring of Kerry

Rossbeigh Strand

Rossmore Forest Park

Sally Gap

Saltee Islands

Sheep's Head Peninsula

Silver Strand, Malin Beg

Skellig Michael

Skellig Michael

Skellig Ring

Slieve League

Slieve League

Spanish Point

Strandhill

Streedagh Beach

The Burren

The Burren

The Curragh

The Gap of Dunloe

The Gap of Dunloe

The Great Blasket Island

The Great Blasket Island

The Slieve Bloom Mountains

The Slieve Bloom Mountains

County Laois and County Offaly

The Worm Hole

Torc Waterfall

Twelve Bens

Valentia Island

Valentia Island

Wexford Wildfowl Reserve

Wicklow Mountains National Park

Landmarks & history Castles, ruins, old towns, monuments and the places where the history actually happened.

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Ahenny High Crosses

cathedral ruins

Ardfert Cathedral

Ardgillan Castle

Ardmore Round Tower

Athenry

Athlone Castle

Aughnanure Castle

Ballintubber Abbey

Ballycarbery Castle

navigation beacon

Baltimore Beacon

Bantry House

Bective Abbey

Belvedere House and Gardens

Blacksod Lighthouse

Blarney Castle

Blarney Castle

Blennerville Windmill

Boyle Abbey

Browneshill Dolmen

Bunratty Castle

Bunratty Castle

Caherconnell Stone Fort

Cahergall Stone Fort

Cahir Castle

Cahir Castle

County Tipperary

passage tomb cemetery

Carrowkeel

archaeological site

Carrowmore Megalithic Cemetery

Carrowmore Megalithic Cemetery

neoclassical folly

Casino at Marino

Castletown House

archaeological site

Ceide Fields

Ceide Fields

Charles Fort

Christ Church Cathedral

Clogh Oughter Castle

Clonfert Cathedral

Clonmacnoise

Clonmacnoise

Corcomroe Abbey

archaeological site

Corlea Trackway

Creevykeel Court Tomb

Doe Castle

Doonagore Castle

Dowth

archaeological site

Drombeg Stone Circle

Drombeg Stone Circle

Drumcliffe

Dublin Castle

Dublin Castle

Duckett's Grove

Dun Aonghasa

Dunguaire Castle

Dunguaire Castle

Dunquin Pier

Dysert O'Dea

Emo Court

Ennis Friary

Fanad Head Lighthouse

Fanad Head Lighthouse

Fastnet Rock

Fethard Town Walls

Fore Abbey

Gallarus Oratory

Gallarus Oratory

Galway Cathedral

Glendalough

Glendalough

Grianan of Aileach

Grianan of Aileach

Ha'penny Bridge

Ha'penny Bridge

Hill of Slane

archaeological site

Hill of Tara

Hill of Tara

ceremonial site

Hill of Uisneach

Holy Cross Abbey

monastic island

Holy Island, Lough Derg

Hook Lighthouse

Hook Lighthouse

Huntington Castle

monastic island

Inishmurray

monastic island

Innisfallen Island

Jerpoint Abbey

Jerpoint Abbey

County Kilkenny

Kells

Kells Priory

Kildare Round Tower and Cathedral

Kilfenora High Crosses

Kilkenny Castle

Kilkenny Castle

County Kilkenny

Killala Round Tower

Kilmacduagh Monastery

Kilmainham Gaol

Kilmainham Gaol

Kilmalkedar Church

King John's Castle

Knappogue Castle

Knowth

Kylemore Abbey

Leap Castle

Lismore Castle Gardens

archaeological landscape

Lough Gur

archaeological site

Loughcrew Cairns

Loughcrew Cairns

Malahide Castle

Maynooth Castle

Mellifont Abbey

georgian square

Merrion Square

Monasterboice

Monasterboice

Moone High Cross

Muckross Abbey

Muckross House and Gardens

Nenagh Castle

archaeological site

Newgrange

Newgrange

Ormond Castle

plantation castle

Parke's Castle

Poolbeg Lighthouse

fortified house

Portumna Castle

archaeological site

Poulnabrone Dolmen

Poulnabrone Dolmen

Proleek Dolmen

Quin Abbey

archaeological landscape

Rathcroghan

Rock of Cashel

Rock of Cashel

County Tipperary

Rock of Dunamase

Rockfleet Castle

Roscommon Castle

Ross Errilly Friary

merchant townhouse

Rothe House

Samuel Beckett Bridge

monastic island

Scattery Island

Shandon Bells

deserted village

Slievemore Deserted Village

Sligo Abbey

Spanish Arch

St Canice's Cathedral

St Colman's Cathedral

St Flannan's Cathedral, Killaloe

St Laurence Gate

St Mary's Cathedral, Limerick

St Michan's Church

St Patrick's Cathedral

St Patrick's Cathedral

Staigue Fort

Swiss Cottage

Thoor Ballylee

Timahoe Round Tower

Timoleague Abbey

Tintern Abbey, Wexford

Trim Castle

Trim Castle

Waterford Viking Triangle

Waterford Viking Triangle

County Waterford

Youghal Clock Gate Tower

Museums & culture Museums, galleries, open-air heritage sites and the collections worth planning a day around.

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14 Henrietta Street

Allihies Copper Mine Museum

Ardara

Arigna Mining Experience

Ballinasloe Horse Fair

Blasket Centre

literary festival

Bloomsday

craft tradition

Bodhran Making

craft tradition

Claddagh Ring

craft tradition

Clones Lace

nature reserve and estate

Coole Park

Cork City Gaol

Cork Jazz Festival

Crawford Art Gallery

Currach Boats

Donegal Craft Village

Donegal Tweed and Handweaving

Dunbrody Famine Ship

Dunsink Observatory

Dunsink Observatory

Electric Picnic

EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum

folklore and archaeology

Fairy Forts

Fleadh Cheoil na hEireann

Foxford Woollen Mills

Foynes Flying Boat Museum

Galway Hooker Boats

Galway International Arts Festival

racing festival

Galway Races

Glencolmcille Folk Village

devotional sites

Holy Wells

House of Waterford Crystal

Hugh Lane Gallery

Hurling and Gaelic Games

Hurling and Gaelic Games

musical tradition

Irish Harp Tradition

Irish Museum of Modern Art

Irish Pot Still Whiskey

Irish Pot Still Whiskey

dance tradition

Irish Step Dancing

Irish Wake Museum

James Joyce Centre

James Joyce Tower

craft tradition

Kenmare Lace

Kerry Writers' Museum

pilgrimage site

Knock Shrine

Lisdoonvarna Matchmaking Festival

literary festival

Listowel Writers' Week

Marsh's Library

Marsh's Library

Medieval Mile Museum

Museum of Literature Ireland

National Leprechaun Museum

National Library of Ireland

National Museum of Country Life

National Museum of Ireland, Archaeology

National Museum of Ireland, Archaeology

agricultural show

National Ploughing Championships

inscribed stones

Ogham Stones

Nationwide, concentrated in Kerry and Cork

Patrick Kavanagh Centre

Puca Festival

Puck Fair

Puck Fair

Rose of Tralee Festival

singing tradition

Sean-nos Singing

Connemara, Kerry and Donegal

Seanchai Storytelling

Skerries Mills

Sliabh Luachra

St Patrick's Day

St Patrick's Day

pilgrimage site

St Patrick's Purgatory

vernacular architecture

Thatched Cottages

The Abbey Theatre

The Abbey Theatre

The Chester Beatty

The Chester Beatty

The Gaeltacht and the Irish Language

The Gaeltacht and the Irish Language

Western seaboard

The Hunt Museum

The Hunt Museum

County Limerick

The National Gallery of Ireland

The National Gallery of Ireland

Titanic Experience Cobh

Tory Island

Traditional Irish Music

Traditional Irish Music

Trinity College and the Book of Kells

Trinity College and the Book of Kells

musical tradition

Uilleann Pipes

Wexford Festival Opera

Willie Clancy Summer School

Wren Day

Kerry and nationwide

Attractions & fun Theme parks, zoos, aquariums, towers and the built attractions families actually queue for.

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heritage village

Adare

Altamont Gardens

demesne and science centre

Birr Castle Gardens

Blackrock Castle Observatory

Bundoran

Crag Cave

open-air museum

Craggaunowen

Croke Park Stadium Tour

Dingle Oceanworld

estate and parkland

Doneraile Court

Dublinia

Dun Laoghaire Piers

theme park and zoo

Emerald Park

Eyeries

Fota Wildlife Park

Fota Wildlife Park

Galway Atlantaquaria

Galway Atlantaquaria

Garnish Island

Great Western Greenway

open-air museum

Irish National Heritage Park

stud farm and gardens

Irish National Stud

Lahinch

Latin Quarter, Galway

Loftus Hall

Mitchelstown Cave

Mount Congreve Gardens

botanical garden

National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin

National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin

fishing village

Portmagee

botanical garden

Powerscourt Gardens

Powerscourt Gardens

Royal Canal Greenway

Kildare, Meath, Westmeath and Longford

seaside promenade

Salthill Promenade

Sky Road

Slea Head Drive

Sneem

island fortress

Spike Island

The Dursey Island Cable Car

The Dursey Island Cable Car

Waterford Greenway

Westport House

Food & drink Market halls, food streets and the dishes a country is genuinely known for - areas and traditions, not single venues.

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Bacon and Cabbage

Barmbrack

Blackberry Picking

Boxty

Leitrim, Cavan, Longford and the border counties

Boyne Valley Food Trail

Meath and Louth

Carlingford Oysters

Carrageen Moss Pudding

Coastal, nationwide

Colcannon and Champ

Cork Butter Museum

Dingle Food Festival

Drisheen and Tripe

Galway Market

Galway Market

Galway Oysters

Galway Oysters

Guinness and the Storehouse

Guinness and the Storehouse

fishing harbour

Howth Fishing Village

Irish Coffee

Nationwide; invented at Foynes, Limerick

Irish Craft Cider

Tipperary, Waterford and Armagh

Irish Seafood Chowder

Coastal, nationwide

Irish Smoked Salmon

Nationwide; smokehouses on all coasts

Irish Soda Bread

Irish Soda Bread

Irish Stew

Irish Stew

drink tradition

Irish Tea Culture

Killybegs

fishing village

Kilmore Quay

Kinsale, the Food Town

Milk Market, Limerick

Moore Street Market

Poitin

Nationwide; historically Donegal, Connemara and west Cork

Seaweed Foraging

Spice Bag

Temple Bar

Temple Bar

The English Market

The English Market

The Full Irish Breakfast

The Full Irish Breakfast

The Waterford Blaa

The Waterford Blaa

County Waterford

West Cork Farmhouse Cheese

seasonal produce

Wexford Strawberries

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