Cliffs of Moher photographic print in a black wooden frame

Irish Landscape Photography Prints: The Views Worth Hanging

The best Irish landscape photography prints are the ones that show a place the way it looks on a good day's walk: a hard horizon, real weather, light that was actually there. Ireland photographs well because so much of it is edge: sea cliffs, lake shores, mountain skylines, and old stone sitting in open country. This guide goes through the views worth hanging, and how to choose between them.

Everything below comes from our Irish landscape photography prints collection, which sits inside the wider Irish art prints range.

The Atlantic cliffs

If one view says Ireland to visitors and returning emigrants alike, it is the west coast cliff. The Cliffs of Moher in Clare run for about eight kilometres and rise to roughly 214 metres, and the photograph works on a wall because the scale is legible: a thin line of grass, a long drop, and a flat grey-blue sea. Our Cliffs of Moher framed print is the obvious starting point.

Cliffs of Moher photographic print in a black wooden frame, showing the Clare sea cliffs above the Atlantic
Cliffs of Moher, County Clare, in a black wooden frame.

Further south and north the same coast changes character. Mizen Head is the sharper, more remote version, and Slieve League in Donegal, among the highest sea cliffs in Europe, suits a taller wall where the height can register.

Mountains and lakes

Irish mountains are modest in height and dramatic in shape, which is why a good photograph can do a lot with them. Errigal, Donegal's highest peak, is a near-perfect cone, and it catches the low evening light well. The Errigal at sunset print leans on exactly that colour.

Photograph of Mount Errigal in County Donegal glowing orange at sunset
Mount Errigal, Donegal, at sunset.

For something quieter, a lake view is easier to live with day to day. Glendalough in Wicklow has the monastic valley and still water that suit a hallway or a study, and Twelve Pines on Derryclare Lough in Connemara is a calm, compositional shot built around a single line of trees on the shore.

Square framed photographic print of Glendalough lake in County Wicklow in a wooden frame
Glendalough, County Wicklow, in a square wooden frame.

Ancient Ireland

Some of the strongest landscape photographs include something built. Newgrange in the Boyne Valley is a passage tomb older than the pyramids, aligned so that the winter solstice sunrise reaches into its chamber. A sunset photograph of the mound reads as both landscape and history, and it looks well against a plain or textured wall. See the Newgrange framed print. We also carry the Poulnabrone dolmen in the Burren, a portal tomb standing alone on bare limestone.

Newgrange sunset framed print in a black frame hung on a stone wall in a modern loft
Newgrange at sunset, shown in a black frame.

Colour or black and white?

Colour suits sunsets, green country and anywhere the light is the point. Black and white suits shape and weather: the cliffs, a bridge at night, a gate on a hillside. If your room already has a lot of colour in it, monochrome is often the calmer choice, and our black and white photographic prints are collected in one place.

Choosing for your room

  • Over a sofa or bed, choose a wide horizon: coast, cliff or lake.
  • In a hallway or stairwell, a square or portrait view with a single clear subject reads from a distance.
  • For a gift to someone from a particular county, pick their home place over the famous one. It will mean more.
  • Keep the frame simple. Black or natural wood lets the horizon do the work.

If you would rather browse the full set, the Irish photographic prints collection has more than sixty views, and our guide to Irish landscape art from the Burren to Connemara covers the painted side of the same places.

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