Kilrush

The port at the mouth of the Shannon, and a place the Famine is written into: the Vandeleur estate carried out some of the most notorious mass evictions of the period here, drawn by the Illustrated London News and argued over in Parliament. Scattery Island, with its round tower, lies offshore.

• Scattery Island · A monastic island with a round tower, a Viking base, a 19th-century pilots' village — all empty since 1978, in the mouth of the Shannon.

All of these are pinned on the Hidden Ireland map.