Visit Killarney

A planned Georgian town at the foot of Croagh Patrick, the pilgrimage mountain climbed barefoot every July.

Lakes, oak woods and Muckross House below Ireland’s highest mountains, explored by jaunting car or bicycle.

Visit Cork, Ireland's second-largest city. Explore the English Market (a historic covered food market operating since 1788), see the 19th-century St. Fin Barre's Cathedral (with its three spires and stained glass), and wander through University College Cork's campus (notable for its Gothic Revival architecture and the Glucksman Gallery).

Lively harbour city of music and pubs.

Ireland's medieval capital: a Norman castle, St Canice's round tower and the Smithwick's brewery.

King John's Castle on the Shannon and the Milk Market, in the city of Angela's Ashes.

A fishing town of pubs and trad sessions at the end of the Dingle Peninsula, the westernmost point of Europe.

Ireland's oldest city, founded by Vikings in 914 and still cutting the crystal that carries its name.