Discover what each county is famous for, where its main towns are, and what to see. Guides are being added county by county.
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Capital energy, coastal calm, a county that never quite sleeps.
Horse country — the Curragh, stud farms and market towns.
The Royal County — Newgrange, Tara, and the Boyne valley.
The Garden of Ireland — mountains, lakes and film-set glens.
Sunny south-east, opera festivals and long strands.
Medieval streets, hurling heartland, artisan craft.
Quiet midlands, the Rock of Dunamase, and the Slieve Blooms.
Birr Castle, Clonmacnoise, and the bogs of the midlands.
Lakelands county — Athlone and the shores of Lough Ree.
Small county, big literary history — home of Oliver Goldsmith.
The Wee County — Cooley peninsula and Cú Chulainn country.
River Barrow towns and one of Ireland's oldest landscapes.
The Rebel County — a city, a coastline, a whole world of its own.
The Ring, the Skelligs, and mountains that meet the Atlantic.
Treaty city energy on the banks of the Shannon.
The Burren, the Cliffs of Moher, and trad sessions till late.
Golden Vale farmland and the Rock of Cashel.
Ireland's oldest city, crystal, and the Copper Coast.
City energy, Connemara wild, an island accent of its own.
Achill, Croagh Patrick, and a coastline built for wandering.
Yeats country — Benbulben, beaches and surf towns.
Lakelands and heartland farming country.
Ireland's quietest county — waterways and green hills.
Cliffs, Gaeltacht, and the wildest skies in Ireland.
Lakeland county on the border, all drumlins and water.
Rolling drumlin hills and market towns.
Giant's Causeway, glens, and the Belfast coast road.
Orchard county — cathedral city and apple country.
Mourne Mountains sweeping down to the sea.
Lakeland county built around Lough Erne.
Walled city on the Foyle, a stronghold of music and murals.
Sperrin Mountains and Ulster-Scots heritage.