An ancient holy well said to be used by the patron saint of sailors and travelers, lost in the boggy west of Valentia Island.

This 14th century tower house was once the home of Irish poet W.B. Yeats.

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

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.

A particularly disconcerting tribute to Irish martyrs.

The largest portal tomb in Europe has a capstone weighing around 150 tons.

Fluffy and friendly alpacas nestled against the border of the beautiful Connemara region.

The skeleton of a whale that beached itself in this Irish town is now on display in their public park.

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

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

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

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

Catholics make up 84% of Ireland's population but this Dublin museum remembers the small but important Jewish community.

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

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

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

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

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

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

This supermarket offers shoppers a window into the past alongside their groceries.

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

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