Visitors can wonder at the meanings behind the largest concentrations of carved Stone Age artwork and Celtic gold artifacts in Western Europe as well as hear from the locals themselves the stories that infuse this landscape of ancient warriors and Celtic druids.

In the Boyne Valley there are a collection of prehistoric ceremonial sites that connect the lives and deaths of Stone Age Man who lived here to the seasons of the land in which they lived.

From the Viking Triangle of Ireland’s oldest city, Waterford, lush river valleys lead to the beautifully preserved Medieval City of Kilkenny and beyond.

The fortresses and castles built to protect the land and its occupants are evident everywhere in the region. For example, Hugh de Lacy’s magnificent Norman Castle still dominates the landscape at Trim.

• Muiredach’s Cross, Monasterboice in the Boyne Valley is Ireland’s most beautiful High Cross and West Cross is the tallest remaining Celtic high cross in Ireland.
• Newgrange and Knowth in the Boyne Valley are the best-known Irish passage tombs dating to 3,200BC. Newgrange is the oldest known deliberately orientated structure in the world.
• Loughcrew in the Boyne Valley is the oldest cemetery in the world and tells of Ireland’s Neolithic cultures. One legend has it that the so-called burial mounds were created by a witch flying overhead and dropping pebbles on the landscape.
• Trim Castle in the Boyne Valley is Ireland’s Largest Anglo-Norman Castle. It is also the place where the film Braveheart was shot.
• Wicklow derives its name from the Old Norse name meaning ‘Vikings Meadow’.
• Wicklow is colloquially known as the Garden of Ireland.
• Lough Tay in Co. Wicklow was the filming location for the original ‘Vikings’ series and now the ‘Vikings: Valhalla’ series.