Explore Ireland by region

The capital and its harbour towns: a DART ride from the city centre to cliff walks, seafood piers, and castle demesnes along the county Dublin coastline.

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Co. Wicklow and Co. Wexford: the Garden of Ireland, Victorian seaside towns, and the Sugar Loaf, all within an hour of Dublin.

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Viking cities, Norman castles, and medieval streetscapes across Waterford, Kilkenny, Tipperary, and the Ancient East hinterland.

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From a postcard harbour town and a walled city port to the ring of mountains, lakes, and peninsulas that draw visitors to the southwest corner of Europe.

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From a harbour city famous for its music and festivals to a North Mayo river town that calls itself the Salmon Capital of Ireland, along Ireland's western Atlantic seaboard.

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The lower Shannon country of Co. Limerick: a Georgian city wrapped around a Norman castle and King's Island, the thatched streets of Ireland's prettiest village, and the riverlands between the Atlantic west and the southern mountains.

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Yeats country beneath Benbulben, the surf and growing food scene of Sligo, and Donegal Bay's fishing harbours running out toward Slieve League on the Wild Atlantic Way's wildest northern stretch.

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The inland heart of Ireland along the River Shannon and Lough Ree: castle towns, cruising waters, and the lakelands between the western seaboard and the capital.

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Co. Louth and Co. Meath north of Dublin: the Boyne Valley's Norman keeps and passage tombs, a working port city on a tidal river, and a medieval walled village on a lough under the Cooley Mountains.

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