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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 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.
A large, remote mountain and glen country in southwest Donegal, centred on Derryveagh National Park — one of the wildest areas of lowland and mountain on the west coast.
A 15,000-hectare karst landscape in north Clare — a plain of limestone and dry stone walls, a UNESCO Global Geopark, and one of the great walking places in the country.
Two kilometres of cliff falling up to 214 metres into the Atlantic, above the village of Doolin — the most visited natural site in the country, and still worth going to, if you know how.