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Historic sites in Ireland

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If you’re looking to explore Historic Sites in Ireland and the surrounding area then you can explore our interactive map above or navigate further by using the links below.

There’s a fantastic selection of  Historic Sites in Ireland and you can plan some great things to see on your trips by browsing our selection. Once you’ve explored the  Historic Sites in Ireland you can use our itinerary planner tool to plan out your trip and then print off a free pocket guidebook.

Our database of historic sites is growing all the time, but we may not cover them all. Remember, if you know of other  Historic Sites in Ireland, you can always add them to Historvius now by visiting our upload page.
 

Historical sites in Ireland : Site Index

  • Barryscourt Castle Barryscourt Castle
    Barrycourt Castle is a medieval tower built by the major branch of the Barry family in Cork in the 16th Century.

  • Blarney Castle Blarney Castle
    Blarney Castle is a fifteenth century stone castle Cork, Ireland and home to the mysterious Blarney Stone.
    Photo by Sean MacEntee (cc)

  • Carnfree Carnfree
    Carnfree is an extention of the Rathcroghan Archaeological Complex and the Inaugration place of the Kings of Connacht, in Ireland

  • Carrowmore Megalithic Cemetery Carrowmore Megalithic Cemetery
    Carrowmore Megalithic Cemetery in Ireland is one of the largest and most impressive cemeteries of its kind.
    Photo by Jule_Berlin (cc)

  • Chester Beatty Library Chester Beatty Library
    The Chester Beatty library has one of the world's great collections of manuscripts and related art from across the world with a particular emphasis on the great cultures and religions of the world.
    Photo by infomatique (cc)

  • Clonmacnoise Clonmacnoise
    What could be seen as Ireland's true first city, the ruins of the 6th century monastic settlement of Clonmacnoise can be found in County Offaly.

  • Dublin Castle Dublin Castle
    Dublin Castle has served as everything from a fortification and royal home to a gunpowder storage facility and a prison.
    Photo by infomatique (cc)

  • Fourknocks Fourknocks
    Fourknocks is a megalithic burial site in the Republic of Ireland.

  • Hill of Tara Hill of Tara
    The Hill of Tara was the royal seat of the High Kings of Ireland for thousands of years and is home to a Stone Age passage grave.
    Photo by teamaskins (cc)

  • Kells Priory Kells Priory
    Kells Priory is a ruin of a fourteenth to fifteenth century monastery in County Kilkenny, the Republic of Ireland.
    Photo by cyrildoussin (cc)

  • Kilmainham Jail Kilmainham Jail
    Kilmainham Jail housed some of Ireland most famous political prisoners.
    Photo by Sean Munson (cc)

  • Knowth Knowth
    Knowth is one of three prehistoric burial mounds in Ireland which make up the World Heritage site of the Bend of the Boyne.
    Photo by dccrowley (cc)

  • Newgrange Newgrange
    Newgrange is a dramatic prehistoric burial mound complex in County Meath in Ireland.

  • Oweynagat Oweynagat
    Oweynagat is a natural cave site located within the Rathcroghan Complex which has been altered by man. It has been identified as the Cave of the Cats or the Sigh of Cruachan, a mythical passage was between this work and the Otherworld.

  • Rathcroghan Rathcroghan
    Identified as the traditional location of one of Ireland’s Celtic dynasties, Rathcroghan is an archaeological site in the West of Ireland.

  • Rock of Cashel Rock of Cashel
    The Rock of Cashel in Ireland is a medieval complex steeped in centuries of history, both royal and ecclesiastical.

  • Skellig Michael Skellig Michael
    Skellig Michael is a dramatic and remote medieval monastic settlement off the coast of Ireland.

  • The Main Guard The Main Guard
    The Main Guard is a restored seventeenth century courthouse in Clonmel in the Republic of Ireland.

  • Valentia Transatlantic Cable Station Valentia Transatlantic Cable Station
    Valentia Transatlantic Cable Station is the world’s oldest Atlantic cable station.

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