Visitors can explore the castle's interior, with its ancient furnishings and artifacts ... is perhaps the most famous of all abandoned castles. Commissioned by King Ludwig II, its fairy-tale ...

There is also evidence that they may have traded tin, a valuable resource in ancient times. For unknown reasons, Carn Euny was abandoned around AD 400, towards the end of the Roman period.

It’s a landscape rich with archaeology and mythology, ancient churches and castles, even Ireland’s oldest dateable Christian monument, the Kilnasaggart Pillar Stone, a granite monolith 9ft high, cut ...