Places to Visit

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Easter Sunday falls on 5 April 2026. Ireland at Easter is serene, unhurried, and spectacular — discover Clare’s inaugural Easter Festival, Bunratty Castle, the Galway choir heading to the Vatican, and the best places to spend the long weekend.

Tory Island, nine miles off the Donegal coast, still elects its own king. Discover the legend, the cursing stones, and the painters no one expected.

Skellig Michael: discover why Irish monks chose to live on a remote Atlantic rock, and how their stone beehive huts have survived 1,400 years.

Discover the Black Valley in County Kerry — the last place in Ireland to receive electricity in 1976. A remote, hauntingly beautiful corner of Kerry.

The last 22 residents left the Great Blasket Island in 1953, carrying everything they owned. Discover the remarkable writers they left behind and what visitors find there today.

Ireland has thousands of abandoned villages — stone walls, open hearths and empty doorways on hillsides across the country. Here is what they mean, and how to find them.

Newgrange in County Meath is a 5,000-year-old passage tomb older than the pyramids. Once a year, at the winter solstice, sunlight floods its chamber for 17 minutes.

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.