Pirates Cove is Ireland’s first adventure golf course. Its 18 greens are inside caves, under waterfalls, and one is in a life-sized pirate shipwreck. Other...

Forest Park Leisure Centre is a White Flag leisure centre, which means it has met the highest standards for quality of service and safety. The...

Courtown Woods is a 25-hectare wood in the picturesque river valley of the Owenavarro. The wood was once part of the estate of the Earls...

Courtown is a popular seaside resort. Especially for Dubliners, who have been coming here since 1863, when the first railway line from Dublin was built....

Francis and Iain MacDonald have transformed a neglected orchard into a series of stunning garden rooms. Among them, a woodland garden, with many rare and...

This open-air musuem has a traditional farm, a picture gallery, a Norman motte, and an ancient church and holy well. There’s also a fascinating indoor...

This is a craft centre specializing in the conservation and propagation of wild Irish flowers. Visitors can follow the Centre’s new nature trail, which climbs...

Morriscastle Strand is a popular family and fishing beach. For families, there’s an excellent sandy beach, with sand dunes and plenty of entertainment and facilities...

Huntington Castle and Garden’s chief attraction is possibly German sculptor Ulrick Rueckriem’s world-famous installation. Guided tours of the piece are available. Other attractions include a...

Altamont is known as the most romantic garden in Ireland, and it’s ranked in the top 10. A Robinsonian or Arts and Craft style garden,...

Only half of Ferns Castle is still standing, but it’s an impressive half. The centerpiece, a massive wall fragment, is from a round tower. Another...

Clonmore Castle is a typical 13th-century Anglo-Norman castle - plain and square with two rectangular towers and two turrets at its corners. These fortifications were...

This cottage museum in the tiny townland of Ardattin attracts visitors from all around the world and it has featured on television and radio. The...

The South Leinster Way runs from Kildavin in County Carlow to Carrick-on-Suir in County Tipperary. On its 102 km journey it heads up to the...

Charles Lanyon built Newtonbarry House in 1883. This stark and imposing mansion was his last project. Unusually, the gardens, or parts of them, are older...

Tullow is a bustling market town with many handsome granite buildings. One of them houses the town’s museum. Next to a bridge over the River...

A hidden treasure, Myshall Memorial Church is a unique miniature of Salisbury Cathedral. A London businessman, John Duguid, built the tiny church in 1913 in...

A safe rural fine-sand beach, Curracloe has had Blue Flag status since 2004. Backed by protected sand dunes and very few buildings, it’s also a...

A 400-year-old cottage beneath the foothills of Mount Leinster is the setting for this informal garden. A one-acre patchwork of six smaller gardens are stitched...

Lisnavagh’s recently restored Victorian gardens are set against the Gothic splendour of Lisnavagh House, built in 1847 by Daniel Robertson. He also designed the gardens,...