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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.
A headland on the north coast of Sligo Bay and one of the best-known surf spots in Ireland — a place we describe here without a precise map, because the headland and its dunes are fragile and the land is not all public.
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 walled harbour town at the head of a warm little bay in south-east Cork — the southern end of the Wild Atlantic Way, and one of the best food towns in the country.