Ireland Film Locations

Real film and TV locations across Ireland — see where to camp nearby and plan a visit.

Skellig Michael
Skellig Michael

This remote monastic island off the Kerry coast, with its dramatic beehive huts perched above the Atlantic, became Luke Skywalker's hideaway on Ahch-To.

Star Wars: The Force Awakens / The Last Jedi
Cliffs of Moher
Cliffs of Moher

Best known as one of Ireland's most-visited natural landmarks, these 200-metre Atlantic cliffs also appear from the air as the cave where Harry and Dumbledore search for a Horcrux in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Strandhill
Strandhill

This County Sligo surf town and its wide Atlantic beach featured throughout the BBC/Hulu adaptation of Sally Rooney's Normal People, alongside locations across the rest of Sligo and Dublin.

Normal People
Achill Island
Achill Island

The wild coastline and villages of Keel and Dooagh on this remote Mayo island were the primary setting for Martin McDonagh's dark comedy The Banshees of Inisherin, alongside neighbouring Inishmore.

The Banshees of Inisherin
Malin Head
Malin Head

Ireland's northernmost point, this dramatic Donegal headland doubled for part of the Star Wars planet Ahch-To alongside Skellig Michael in The Last Jedi, with additional scenes shot around the old signal tower.

Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Dingle Peninsula
Dingle Peninsula

The rugged coastal scenery of this County Kerry peninsula featured in Ron Howard's Far and Away, alongside filming locations in Connemara and County Wicklow.

Far and Away
Cong
Cong

This picturesque County Mayo village, its abbey, and the surrounding Connemara countryside were the setting for John Ford's 1952 classic The Quiet Man, still celebrated with a small museum in the village today.

The Quiet Man
Trim Castle
Trim Castle

Ireland's largest Anglo-Norman castle doubled as the city of York in Mel Gibson's Braveheart, with several of the film's battle scenes shot in the surrounding County Meath countryside.

Braveheart
Lough Tay
Lough Tay

Nicknamed "Guinness Lake" for its dark water and pale sandy shore, this dramatic corrie lake in the Wicklow Mountains doubled as the fictional Kattegat homeland in the History Channel series Vikings.

Vikings
Curracloe Beach
Curracloe Beach

This wide, dune-backed County Wexford beach was transformed into the Normandy coastline for the harrowing opening D-Day landing sequence of Saving Private Ryan.

Saving Private Ryan