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The largest island off the west coast, linked to the mainland by a bridge over Achill Sound since 1887 — wild Atlantic headlands, black-pebble bays, a lighthouse with a story, and a landscape that has shaped Irish life for a thousand years.
The 764-metre mountain near Murrisk, traditionally the place where St Patrick fasted — a broad, windswept summit and one of the great walking and pilgrimage places in the country.
A hillside hermitage above a small lake near Smerkistown on the Cork–Kerry border — the traditional home of St Finbarr, one of the oldest pilgrimage sites in the country, and a walk that is easy to find and hard to forget.
A castle turned abbey on the shore of Kylemore Lough in Connemara, three kilometres from Letterfrack in Co. Galway — one of the most photographed buildings in the west of Ireland, with a story that goes back to the 1860s.
The aquarium in Dingle town — penguins, sharks, Asian otters and rays under a glass dome on the main street, the classic rainy-day stop on the Iveragh and one of the best places in the country to do with kids.
A small, steep island off the Iveragh Peninsula, home to an early Christian monastery of beehive huts — a UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of the great places in the country.
A wall of grey limestone dropping roughly 600 metres into the Atlantic on the Derrybeg Peninsula in southwest Donegal — among the highest sea cliffs in Europe, and only properly seen from the foot of them.
Ireland’s only theme park and zoo — fifty-five acres of rides, coasters and animals near Ashbourne in Co. Meath, opened in 2010 and rebranded as Emerald Park in 2023.
Two small islands off the Dingle Peninsula, home to a community until 1953 — now a nature reserve and one of the most important seabird colonies in Europe.
The small town in south-west Donegal on the N56, named in 2012 by The Irish Times as the best village in which to live in Ireland — a proper base for the Bluestack country and the west coast.
A 526 m table mountain above the Sligo country, with a flat top and a single sheer face — the mountain Yeats asked to be buried beneath, and the signature walk of the county.
The second-largest town in Donegal, on the Inishowen shore of Lough Swilly — the old O’Dohertys’ seat, O’Doherty’s Keep at the river mouth, and the town that the textile trade built up.