This pub built its reputation pouring post-shift pints for employees of the cemetery with which it shares a wall.

A particularly disconcerting tribute to Irish martyrs.

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

A strange egg in a mucky bog of western Ireland marks the spot of an aviation milestone.

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

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

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

Some of the saint's blood and bones are said to reside in Dublin.

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

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

Mortarless walls that stretch for miles are a lovely solution for creating grazing land in the harsh terrain of the Aran Islands.

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

The ruins of a medieval monastery named after a type of tree.

The house where the writer spent his formative years.

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.

Behemoth, cannon-like telescope operated by generations of Irish earls.

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

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

A standing relief of a Norman knight whose posture marks him as a Crusader.

A stunning Victorian abbey and walled garden on a lakefront.

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

This natural sea arch highlights Ireland's rugged coastal beauty.

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

This ancient Irish landscape boasts hundreds of legendary ruins.