Places to Visit in Ireland

Section: Travel Guides

Armagh - ecclesiastical capital of all Ireland.
- St. Patrick's Cathedral, Armagh - seat of the Church of Ireland Archbishop of Armagh.
Clare
- Burren
Cork
Dublin
- Dublin Castle - seat of British rule, now a majortourism centre.
- Dublin Zoo
- Howth Head
- Phoenix Park - "largest inner city park in the world."
- Áras an Uachtaráin - residence of the President of
- Ireland.
- Glasnevin Cemetery - burial location of Eamon de
- Valera, Michael Collins, Roger Casement, Tim Healy, Sean T. O'Kelly, memorial to Irish war dead in First.
- World War, Republican Plot, etc.
- National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, Dublin
- St. Mary's Pro-Cathedral - seat of the Roman Catholic, Archbishop of Dublin.
- Smithfield, Dublin
- Trinity College Dublin Ireland oldest university, founded by Queen Elizabeth I and home of the Book of Kells and the Book of Durrow.
- Georgian Dublin - view of eighteenth century streetscape of Dublin.
Galway
- Aran Islands - Irish gaeltacht speaking islands in Galway bay.
- Connemara - Irish gaeltacht (gaelic speaking area).
Kildare
- Maynooth - ecclesiastical capital of the Republic of Ireland.
Meath
- Newgrange - a monument older than the pyramids.
- Knowth - a similar monument even more impressive than Newgrange that has only recently been opened for visitors.
- Boyne Valley - location of the above two and other monuments.
- Hill of Tara - seat of Ireland's ancient High Kings.

Limerick A quickly improving modern city in the midwest.
Kerry Scenic rural county in the south west.
- Dingle
- Valentia Island, Europe's most western point.
- Tralee Home of The Rose of Tralee.
Westmeath Centre of Ireland - attractive lakes.
- Athlone Castle - old castle in Athlone Town.
- Belvedere House and Gardens - Historic Gardens near Mullingar.
- Lough Owel and Lough Ennell - beautiful lake

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