Across Ireland, roughly 45,000 ancient ring forts sit untouched in farm fields and countryside. Discover why Irish farmers still refuse to disturb these fairy forts today.
Inside Leap Castle in County Offaly, workers once found three cartloads of human bones. Discover the dark history of Ireland’s most haunted castle.
Bealtaine was Ireland’s ancient May Day fire festival — hilltops ablaze, cattle through flames, hawthorn in bloom. Discover how summer once began across Ireland.
Discover the Céide Fields in County Mayo — the world’s oldest enclosed landscape, buried beneath Irish bogland for 5,500 years and rediscovered by chance.
Discover the Irish surnames of County Mayo – O’Malley, Burke, O’Dowd and more. Gaelic origins, meanings, and how to trace your Mayo ancestry today.
Discover County Carlow — from the mighty Browneshill Dolmen and the peaceful River Barrow to Altamont Gardens, Duckett’s Grove, and the Norman heritage of Ireland’s hidden garden county.
Discover County Leitrim — from Glencar Waterfall and the Shannon-Erne Waterway to Carrick-on-Shannon, Parke’s Castle, and the Shed Distillery. Ireland’s quietest county is its best-kept secret.
Discover County Roscommon — from Lough Key Forest Park and the Famine Museum at Strokestown to the ancient capital of Connacht at Rathcroghan. Ireland’s quiet kingdom rewards those who slow down.
Discover County Westmeath — from Athlone Castle and Sean’s Bar to the sacred Hill of Uisneach, Belvedere House, Fore Abbey, and the shores of Lough Ree. The heart of Ireland’s Ancient East.
Discover County Longford — Ireland’s literary heartland. From the ancient Corlea Trackway and Maria Edgeworth’s legacy to Lough Ree’s peaceful shores and the restored St Mel’s Cathedral, explore one of Ireland’s most overlooked Midlands treasures.
Explore County Offaly — Ireland’s hidden heartland. From the ancient monastic city of Clonmacnoise to Birr Castle’s Great Telescope, Lough Boora sculpture park, Clara Bog, and the Slieve Bloom Mountains.