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.
Discover County Laois — the hidden heart of Ireland. From the dramatic Rock of Dunamase to the ancient Slieve Bloom Mountains, heritage towns, and Emo Court, this midlands county is full of surprises.
County Monaghan is Ireland’s best-kept secret — a land of rolling drumlins, two world-famous lace traditions, Patrick Kavanagh’s poetry, and a food scene that punches well above its weight. Discover the best things to do and see.
County Derry is home to one of Europe’s finest walled cities, the stunning Causeway coastline, Seamus Heaney’s literary homeland, and the wild Sperrin Mountains. Discover the best things to do and see in this remarkable corner of Ireland.
County Tyrone is Northern Ireland’s largest county and one of its least explored. From 5,000-year-old stone circles at Beaghmore to the Sperrin Mountains hiding Europe’s richest gold deposit, from the O’Neill dynasty’s last stand to a Strabane cottage that shaped American history — discover Ireland’s hidden heartland.
County Fermanagh is one-third lake. From the monastic island of Devenish to the Marble Arch Caves, the Stairway to Heaven and WW2 flying boats on Lough Erne — discover Ireland’s hidden lakeland.
County Armagh is Ireland’s spiritual capital and mythological heartland — from the ancient seat of Ulster kings at Navan Fort to twin cathedrals on opposing hills, the Ring of Gullion’s volcanic landscape, and 6,000 acres of apple orchards that earned it the name ‘The Orchard County’.
County Kildare offers Georgian grandeur at Castletown House, world-class horse racing on the Curragh, Europe’s finest Japanese Gardens, the ancient Bog of Allen, and St Brigid’s Cathedral — all within 45 minutes of Dublin.
County Cavan sits in the heart of Ulster — a quiet, lake-studded landscape of rolling drumlins, ancient forests, and 365 loughs that most visitors drive past on their way somewhere else. That is precisely what makes it worth stopping for.