A collection of housewares from recent Irish history adjoined by a tower from ancient Irish history.

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

This burial pyramid in central Ireland is thousands of miles and thousands of years away from its Egyptian inspiration.

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

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.

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

A hugely vast Irish landscape of barren rock that stretches for miles.

The severed head of a 17th-century Irish martyr lies within an intricate golden shrine.

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

The oldest licensed distillery in Ireland.

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.

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

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.

Just another ancient, mysterious Irish stone circle.

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

A restaurant with an extensive Irish whiskey bar also has several first editions of famous works by Irish authors.

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

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

The world's tallest box hedge is found in a delightful garden.

Wallabies live naturally on this Irish island.

Huge standing stones mark a site of megalithic mystery.