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The idea that every Scottish clan has always had its own tartan is mostly a 19th centur…
The Long Room at Trinity College Dublin stretches 65 metres and holds 200,000 of the li…
Dinan is a medieval hilltop town in Brittany overlooking the River Rance, surrounded by…
Real
The Minack Theatre is an open-air amphitheatre carved into the granite cliffs above the…
St David’s Day on March 1st honours Dewi Sant, a 6th century monk who founded monasteri…
Anne de Bretagne became Duchess of Brittany at 11 years old in 1488 and spent her entir…
Conwy Castle was built by Edward I between 1283 and 1287 as part of his “iron ring” of…
Highland cows, or “heilan coos,” are the oldest registered cattle breed in the world, w…
Kilmainham Gaol was built in 1796 on the south side of Dublin and held everyone from pe…
Owain Glyndŵr was the last native-born Welshman to hold the title Prince of Wales.
Robert the Bruce seized the Scottish throne in 1306 after killing his rival John Comyn…
St Michael’s Mount is a tidal island off the coast of Marazion in Cornwall, connected t…
The corsairs of Saint-Malo were state-licensed privateers who made the city one of the…
The Eden Project was built inside a disused china clay pit near St Austell in Cornwall,…
The Rock of Cashel rises dramatically from the flat farmland of Tipperary’s Golden Vale…
Glendalough is a glacial valley in the Wicklow Mountains, home to one of the most impor…
The Hill of Tara is a low grassy ridge in County Meath that was the ceremonial seat of…
Newgrange is a Neolithic passage tomb in County Meath, built around 3200 BC, making it…
Appreciation post (part 2)
La Jument is a lighthouse standing on a rock off the western tip of the island of Ushan…
It’s all fun and games until the cards come out with the pints
The Lakes of Killarney are three interconnected lakes (Lough Leane, Muckross Lake and t…
Appreciation post
maybe?
The Dark Hedges are an avenue of beech trees on Bregagh Road in County Antrim, planted…
Blarney Castle
Quimper is the ancient capital of Cornouaille in western Brittany, named from the Breto…
Tintagel Castle sits on a dramatic clifftop headland on the north Cornwall coast, split…
Slea Head Drive is a 47km loop around the Dingle Peninsula in County Kerry, and one of…
Loch Lomond is the largest lake in Great Britain by surface area, sitting right on the…
Land’s End is the westernmost point of mainland England, a granite headland on the tip…
Very normal
Ar-Men means “the rock” in Breton and sits on a barely exposed reef at the far end of t…
Saint-Malo is a granite walled port city on the north coast of Brittany, named after a…
The amount of Fontaines memes on Pinterest is brilliant
The Slea Head Drive is a 47km loop from Dingle town around the westernmost tip of the D…
The Lakes of Killarney are three lakes sitting in a glacial valley beneath MacGillycudd…
Glencoe is a narrow valley in the western Highlands carved by glaciers from volcanic ro…
Connemara is the wild stretch of west Galway between Lough Corrib and the Atlantic — bo…
Fanad Head Lighthouse sits on the tip of the Fanad Peninsula in north Donegal, first li…
I wanna go where they’re going
Edinburgh Castle sits on a volcanic plug 135 metres above the city, occupied since at l…
fair
Ben Nevis is the highest mountain in Britain at 1,345 metres, sitting above Fort Willia…
fair enough
The Cliffs of Moher run 14km along the Clare coast, topping out at 214 metres.
The Laxey Wheel is the largest working waterwheel in the world — 72 feet 6 inches acros…
The Slieve League cliffs in Donegal rise nearly 600 metres from the Atlantic, making th…
Glendalough means “valley of two lakes” in Irish and sits in a glacial valley deep in t…
The Ring of Kerry is a 179km loop around the Iveragh Peninsula in southwest Ireland, st…
The Pembrokeshire Coast is the UK’s only truly coastal national park, established in 19…
Rhossili Bay is three miles of sand on the western tip of the Gower Peninsula in south…
The Cairngorms are the closest thing Britain has to the Arctic — a granite plateau abov…
St Patrick’s Day on March 17th marks the death of the man who brought Christianity to I…
Arthur’s Day was created by Diageo in 2009 to mark 250 years of Guinness.
The Burren is 530 square kilometres of bare limestone in north Clare — the name comes f…
Skye is the largest island in the Inner Hebrides, known in Gaelic as An t-Eilean Sgithe…
Snaefell is the Isle of Man’s only mountain, just barely qualifying at 2,036 feet.
Pen y Fan is the highest peak in southern Britain at 886 metres, sitting in the Brecon…
Loch Ness sits in the Great Glen, a 380-million-year-old fault line that cuts Scotland…
The Giant’s Causeway is about 40,000 interlocking basalt columns on the Antrim coast, f…
Is romance a place?
Somewhere in Cornwall.
Skellig Michael is a 218-metre rock pyramid rising from the Atlantic, 12km off the Kerr…
Scottish Gaelic 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿, or Gàidhlig, is a Goidelic Celtic language brought to S…
Breton, or Brezhoneg, is the only Celtic language still spoken on the European mainland.
Cornish, or Kernewek, is a Brittonic Celtic language — a sibling of Welsh and Breton ra…
Manx 🇮🇲, or Gaelg, is a Goidelic Celtic language native to the Isle of Man and a clos…
Ogham is Ireland’s oldest writing system, dating to the 4th century.
The Aran Islands (Inis Mór, Inis Meáin and Inis Oírr) sit at the mouth of Galway Bay, h…
Yr Wyddfa 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 (or Snowdon, from the Old English for “snow hill”) is the high…
Fontaines D.
The word glen comes from the Irish gleann, meaning a narrow valley.
Ireland has roughly 400,000km of dry stone walls through its countryside, mostly in the…
Is minic a leanann na lánaí cúnga seo i gceantair thuaithe na hÉireann 🇮🇪, ar a dtugt…