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Our website is an online travel guide to Ireland. Website is still under construction, but you can already find some interesting travel destinations. It provides essential information about places of interest, photos, opening hours and ticket prices. Every object is marked on the map, what makes it easy to locate. Our search options let you browse and sort objects by categories and regions.
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Knappogue Castle
West Ireland | County Clare
Knappogue Castle is a medieval tower house located near Quin, in County Clare. It was built in 1467 by Seán MacNamara and stayed in MacNamara's hands untill 1800 when was sold to Scott family. The new owners have begun extensive modernisation, completed in 1855 by another owner Theobold Fitzwalter Butler, 14th Baron Dunboyne. In that time, the Gothic-revival... more info and photos
Butter Museum
Southwest Ireland | County Cork
The Butter Museum is located in the historic Shandon area of Cork city, beside the entrance to the old Cork Butter Exchange. It presents the history of the Irish dairy industry from its earliest times, through the heyday in the 19th-century, when Cork was the largest exporter of butter in the world, to the modern times, when the Kerrygold brand has achieved ... more info and photos
Baltinglass Abbey
East Ireland | County Wicklow
The ruins of Cistercian monastery located in Baltinglass (Co. Wicklow), date back to the 1148. The Baltinglass Abbey was founded by King of Leinster, Diarmait MacMurchada (most known for inviting Normans to Ireland to help him to fight his political rivals) and colonised by monks from Melinfort Abbey in Co. Louth. In its heyday it was live thriving place, w... more info and photos
National Museum of Ireland - Natural History
East Ireland | County Dublin
The National Museum of Ireland - Natural History is situated in Dublin's city centre on Merrion Street. The Victorian ‘cabinet-style’ building, designed by architect Frederick Clarendon) was completed in 1857 to house collection of the Royal Dublin Society. In 1877, the ownership of building and collections was transferred to the state and since then is open... more info and photos
Enniscorthy Castle
Southeast Ireland | County Wexford
Enniscorthy Castle in its present shape dates back to late 16th century but the first Anglo-Norman fortress on this site was built by knight Raymond le Gros in 12th century. That earlier structure was recorded as being destroyed by native Irish in 1326. The castle is similar to Ferns Castle, also has four corner towers but it's much smaller. It changed the o... more info and photos
Rathgall Hillfort
East Ireland | County Wicklow
Rathgall Hillfort, one of the largest in Ireland, is situated on rounded hill in south west part of County Wicklow (about 6 km east of Tullow, Co Carlow). It includes four concentric ramparts, the three outer ones made of stone and earth dating from the Late Bronze Age, around the 1000BC. The inner, dry stone walled ring fort was added in Early Christian tim... more info and photos
Craggaunowen
West Ireland | County Clare
Craggaunowen is an open air museum located in forest park, 6 km east from Quin (Co Clare), just off road R469 (20 km northwest from Limerick City). This living past experience project was established in 1960's by John Hunt, important historian, antiquarian, and collector (his collections are on display in Hunt Museum in Limerick). The reconstructions, inclu... more info and photos
Seefin Passage Tomb
East Ireland | County Wicklow
The Seefin Passage Tomb is situated on the top of a 650 meters high mountain in north part of County Wicklow and is not the only one in this area. Two other cairns are visible on the nearby peaks. This kind of megalithic structures dates back to Neolithic Period, so it's over 5000 years old. The monument has approx 25 m in diameter and is 3 m high. The entr... more info and photos