Peaceful Path to Yeats’ Tower
This footpath along the Streamstown River in County Galway, Ireland, leads to Thoor Ballylee, a 15th or 16th Century Norman Tower House and former home to Poet and Nobel Laureate William Butler Yeats. Once...
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Ballinalacken Castle in Ireland’s County Clare
Ballinalacken Castle towers above the countryside of County Clare, Ireland, with commanding views out to the Aran Islands and Galway Bay from its vantage point between Doolin and Lisdoonvarna. Perched on a limestone outcropping...
Dough Castle in Ireland’s County Clare
A menacing sky provides the dark backdrop for the ruins of 14th-century Dough Castle, a landmark at the exclusive Lahinch Golf Club in County Clare, Ireland. Built in 1306 by the O’Connor Clan, Dough...
Lord Bandon’s Tower in Ireland’s County Cork
With more than 30,000 castles, from ruins to 5-star hotels throughout the Irish countryside, you might wander upon this scene on County Cork’s Sheep’s Head Peninsula and think you’re looking at a relic from...
Medieval Dunmanus Castle on Ireland’s Mizen Peninsula
This Medieval fortress, Dunmanus Castle, was built in 1430 by the O’Mahony Clan on the Mizen Peninsula in County Cork, Ireland. The largest of a dozen of the family’s castles, it’s location on a...
