Places to Visit

Discover the best walking trails in the Boyne Valley, Ireland — from the riverside loop at Trim Castle to the ancient passage tombs at Newgrange. Get our free Ireland guide delivered to your inbox.

Newgrange was built around 3200 BC — older than Stonehenge and the Great Pyramid of Giza — and once a year, at dawn, it still does exactly what it was built to do. Five thousand years on, we’re still working out how they actually did it.

The best pubs in County Sligo according to Ireland’s biggest pub poll of 2026. See the current rankings and cast your vote.

Doe Castle sits at the water’s edge on Sheephaven Bay in County Donegal — one of Ireland’s best-preserved and least-visited medieval castles, and the stronghold that watched the Gaelic world end in 1607. Plus get weekly Ireland stories free in our newsletter.

Photo: John Martin / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0) The 1926 Irish Census is now searchable online for free, and for anyone with Irish roots, …

In 1900, nine out of every ten whiskeys drunk on Earth were Irish. By 1980, two distilleries were left in the entire country. This episode covers how that happened, and how Irish whiskey came back.

The Burren looks like nowhere else in Ireland — a limestone landscape that confused geologists for a century. This episode explains what you’re actually looking at.

Classiebawn Castle sits at the edge of Mullaghmore, Co. Sligo — a real, visitable place, and the site of one of the defining events of …

Most visitors photograph Kylemore Abbey from across the lake and move on. Almost none of them are told why it was built, or what happened …

Every year, thousands of Irish-American, Irish-Australian and Irish-Canadian visitors stand on this quay looking for the exact spot their ancestors last stood on Irish soil. …