Step inside the hidden rooms of old Irish pubs. Irish pub snug rooms have a secret history — one that reveals a lot about who was welcome and who wasn’t.

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.

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.