Above: View in West Cape Dunmore Head, the point of a peninsula in County Kerry , is the most westerly point of Ireland. Loop Head, in County Clare, is also at the end of a peninsula. It is a bare headland, rising two hundred feet straight from the waves, A huge pillar of rock of the same height as the cape is separated from it by a fearful chasm about thirty feet wide and two hundred feet deep. At the bottom of this ... Read More

Above: View in North Cape Malin Head, in County Donegal, is the most northerly point of the mainland. Fair Head, in County Antrim, on the north-east, opposite the Mull of Cantire in Scotland, is 200 feet high. One of the greatest wonders of Ireland is the Giants' Causeway, on the north coast of Antrim. It is a sort of natural pier, stretching from the shore into the North Channel. According to a fable it was the work of Irish giants, who wished to ... Read More