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The walls surrounding the City of Derry are 26 feet high and as much as 30 feet wide in certain areas. Construction was completed in 1618, funded by the London trade guilds in charge of the plantation of…

The City of Derry began as the site of a monastery, founded by St. Columba in 546. Its name came from the Gaelic word Doire, which means ‘oak grove’. The area of the original monastery is now known…

The founder of Cork City chose the site of this 1880 church to build his original church and school around the year 650. The current building replaced a structure from 1735, and only its original bells remain.
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This Roman Catholic house of worship was designed and built during the late 18th century, a particularly difficult and turbulent period for the religion in Irish history. It is widely known as the oldest Roman Catholic Cathedral in Ireland…

This busy commercial port city along the River Suir is the fifth largest city in Ireland, and bears the distinction of being the oldest. It is also the largest town in the southeastern part of the country.
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Ardigole is a small, pretty and historic harobour village located on the scenic Healy Pass road. This hilly route through the Caha mountains on the Beara peninsula offers amazing panoramas, parcticularly if taken in the late afternoon on a…

Completed in 1791, this structure, with its beautiful classical façade, is one of Dublin’s most prominent waterfront buildings. Designed by prominent Irish architect James Gandon, Custom House is a product of the highest point in the history of…

St. Canice’s Cathedral

Second in size only to St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Dublin, this structure from the 13th century has endured vandalism and the ravages of time to remain standing as one…

Northwest Ireland’s largest town is situated in the middle of Yeats Country, where it has miraculously retained all the rural charm of the original small village, even as it has grown in leaps and bounds both physically and economically.

Hunt Museum

At the center of Limerick City, inside the Old Customs House (1765), visitors can peruse the collection of John and Gertrude Hunt. Many European and Irish paintings, including some by…