The best-known ruins in Ireland
Ordered by how much has been written about each place. The numbers match the map.
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Around Dublin the ruins are small and close: St. Kevin's Church (ruins) a kilometer from the center, the Hell Fire Club 5 km from Tallaght, and Tully Church and Killiney Church (ruin) both 5 km from Dún Laoghaire. Abbeyknockmoy Abbey is 28 km from Galway; Kilkenny has St. John's Priory in town and Kilfane Church 14 km away. Monasterboice Abbey is 8 km from Drogheda, and Caherconnell Stone Fort 24 km from Ennis.
RLQuest knows 503 named ruins in Ireland, but only 41 have a Wikipedia article; the 749 castles and 189 megalithic tombs have pages of their own. Many are a roofless church in a field. That is fine for the app: a quest ends when your recorded route reaches the spot, and the lane you took is added to your map.
Every dot is a place. The numbers mark the highlights listed below.
Ordered by how much has been written about each place. The numbers match the map.
A selection, best known first, with the nearest larger town next to each.
and 451 more
RLQuest knows these places too. Which means:
Some of your daily quests lead to a real place near you. The app uses your location to check you were really there.
If you're the first person in RLQuest to complete a quest at a place, it's your first find. The Place Book shows you which kinds of place you're still missing.
Every walk uncovers tiles, each about 350 m across. Over time you can see which corners you know well, and where you've never set foot.
Place data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License. Borders: geoBoundaries (CC BY 4.0); Canada: Statistics Canada. As of 2026-10-02. The list shows the places RLQuest knows and isn't complete. Photos come from Wikimedia Commons; author and license are credited on each photo.
