One of Ireland’s most popular destinations is the Iveragh Peninsula — known to shamrock lovers everywhere as the Ring of ...

Today, visitors can explore their ruins. Photograph by Chris Hill, Nat Geo Image Collection A standing stone perches near the edge of Dunmore Head on mainland Ireland near the Blasket Islands.

What should you see on your first trip to Ireland ... Stone (and explore the rest of Blarney Castle). Hear endless stories ...

Follow the story of a pine marten as she takes us on a journey through a landscape of grey stone called the Burren, home to some of Ireland’s most enchanting wildlife. Ireland is renowned ...

The following is a glimpse of some of Ireland’s best-known ghost towns. Along the southern slope of Slievemore Mountain, which is on Achill Island in Co. Mayo, the ruins of nearly 100 stone ...

The first ruins to be uncovered were the thick stone walls of a national school which was still standing in the shadow of the office block as late as the mid-1980s. But what lay underneath the old ...