This dramatic, ancient ring fort perches on an 800-foot hill just inside the Republic, a stone’s throw from Derry. It’s an Iron Age fortification, built
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The Catholic Bogside area was the tinderbox of the modern Troubles in Northern Ireland. Bloody Sunday, a terrible confrontation during a march that occurred nearly
Squatting determinedly in the city center, the old city walls of Derry (built 1613-1618 and still intact, except for wider gates to handle modern vehicles)
It was just off this scenic bluff that, on August 27, 1979, the IRA detonated a radio-controlled bomb on the vacation yacht of Lord Louis
For a classic medieval high cross, the nub or a round tower, and the grave of the poet W.B. Yeats, visit Drumcliff. From the car
Octagon – This is Westport’s main square, but as it’s eight-sided, it’s called the Octagon.” Surrounded by 30 townhouses, it as the centerpiece of the
The town of Cong offers a fascinating mix of attractions: a medieval ruined abbey, a modern church of exquisite stained-glass windows, and a museum about
Strewn like limestone chips hammered off the jagged west coast, the three Aran Islands – Inishmore, Inishmaan, and Inisheer – confront the wild Atlantic with
Literally the “rocky place,” the Burren is just that. This 10-square-mile limestone plateau is so barren that a disappointed Cromwellian surveyor of the 1650s described
A visit to the Cliffs of Moher (pronounced MO-hur) is one of Ireland’s great natural thrills. For five miles, the dramatic cliffs soar as high