05 Feb Ardagh Ringfort
Many of the 40,000 ringforts remaining in Ireland are well preserved, and all are now protected under the National Monuments Act. The Ardagh Ringfort, however,...
Author: Howard
25 Jan The Hill of Ward
(Tlachtga)
Surveys and excavations show Tlachtga was no isolated fort on a farmed ridge but part of a dense ritual and political landscape: a node in...
21 Jan Lissyviggeen Stone Circle
A few kilometers east of Killarney the tourist bustle falls away into quiet pasture and low fields. A ring of weather‑darkened stones rises from the...
27 Dec Fionn mac Cumhaill’s Fingers
(Shantemon Stone Alignment)
Standing beside the Bronze Age stone row today, it is easy to imagine those later ceremonies unfolding in its shadow—the continuity of assembly on the...
25 Dec Seefin Passage Tomb
High on a windswept summit in the Wicklow Mountains, where the tufts of bog cotton bend under the Atlantic gusts, a dome of stone breaks...
24 Dec Protected: Knowth
20 Dec Dún Dealgan
(Cúchulainn’s Castle)
Perched on a commanding ridge overlooking the Castletown River, Dún Dealgan represents one of the most strategically significant sites in Irish history. ...
11 Jul Abbeyquarter Passage Tomb
The Abbeyquarter Stones occupy the center of Ireland’s only traffic circle containing a prehistoric monument. Constructed as a home for the dead, it now serves...
31 Mar Objects found by Macalister
on the Hill of Uisneach
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31 Mar Objects found by Macalister:
Plate XVIII
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28 Mar Objects found by Macalister:
Plate XVII
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12 Mar Objects found by Macalister:
Plate XIX
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05 Oct Test of Pano2VR “enter_vr” Component
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13 Dec GGPKG test
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31 Mar Mrs. Hickey at Newgrange
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03 Dec Qode Elements Test
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16 Jun Folklore, Archaeology, and William Butler Yeats
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17 Mar Experience Newgrange through a Head-Mounted Display
…a light began to glow and to pervade the cave, and to obliterate the stone walls and the antique hieroglyphics engraved thereon, and to melt...
09 Dec Fuerty Fairy Fort
According to Liam Connolly, the fairy fort in sight of his kitchen window was used as a burial ground during the terrible years of the...
20 Jun Bring Home the Inishmurray Relics
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28 Nov Thirty-Five Years of Hearing the Voices
[caption id="" align="alignright" width="500"] The Proleek Dolmen, Co. Louth, 1968[/caption] 1. The Archaeology 2. The Proleek Dolmen 3. Caherconree 4. Newgrange 5. Drombeg Stone Circle 6. Rostellan Dolmen (“The Pursuit of...
24 Jul Labbacallee Wedge Tomb
This tomb was built two millennia before the ascendancy of the Celts, whose legends named this monument the "Bed of the Witch [or hag]."...
13 Jul Citations S – Z
Seven Wonders of Fore 1The "information boards" in the VR tour feature some photographs not made by the author. Links are provided here for the sources:...
13 Jul Citations M – R
Magh Adhair 1'Donovan, John, and Eugene O'Curry. Letters Containing Information Relative to the Antiquities of the County of Clare, Collected during the Progress of the Ordnance...
13 Jul Citations G – L
Gallarus Oratory 1Harbison, Peter. Pilgrimage in Ireland: the Monuments and the People. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse Univ., 1992. 77, 182. The journal Archaeology Ireland suggests a more humorous...
04 Jul Citations A – F
Aghade Holed Stone 1Cross, Tom Peete, and Clark Harris Slover. Ancient Irish Tales. New York: Barnes & Noble, 1936. 514-17. Original from Book of Ballymote (Leabhar...
10 May Stations of the Gleann Cholm Cille Turas: A Gazetteer
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30 Dec Creevykeel Court Tomb
The site, right off the main Sligo-Bundoran road, allows a convenient stop. But it is difficult for the visitor to escape the traffic noise and...
14 Dec Proleek Dolmen
This site may be unique in Ireland as the only ancient monument likely to hide a golf ball hit into the rough. It is situated...
30 Nov The Giant’s Causeway
In legend, these 40,000 interlocking blocks of stone were the first segment of a roadway stretching across the sea to Scotland. It was built, the...
