Strandhill Peninsula, Co. Sligo Suspendisse congue sagittis leo non sagittis. Donec et lacus vitae turpis ornare lacinia. Nam euismod ullamcorper aliquam. Pellentesque sit amet porttitor purus...
This tomb was built two millennia before the ascendancy of the Celts, whose legends named this monument the "Bed of the Witch [or hag]."...
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...
Cleggan, Co. Galway Just above the windswept strand at Sellerna Bay, at the western edge of Connemara, the Knockbrack Tomb looks out over the sea. Ten...
Cushendall, Co. Antrim This tomb was known as “Cloughbrack” on early maps. It is unclear when it became connected with Ossian and the effort to reclaim...
Rossport, Co. Mayo Its postcard location does not mean that this monument is free from modern controversies. In 2005 five local landowners were jailed for their...
Achill Island, Co. Mayo All ancient monuments carry within their stones a poignant reminder of the lives of long-departed people. However the stones of Keel East...
Killinaboy, Co. Clare Paul Keane explains what happened to someone who attempted to remove stones from the tomb. “He went home, and he went into bed,...
Malin More, Co. Donegal After Cloghanmore was dug out of the bog in the nineteenth century, it was "a ruinous pile," with its roofing-stones tossed aside...
Killeavy, Co. Armagh The earliest oral traditions speak of the Dé Danann. Later poets re-worked these legends into ballads celebrating the conflicts with the Viking. Thus...
Goleen, Co. Cork From its construction in the late Stone Age the Altar Wedge Tomb, with its dramatic waterfront location on Toormore Bay, was the site...
Burren Forest Park, Co. Cavan Many of Ireland's megalithic monuments—portal tombs, court cairns, or wedge tombs such as this one—are known locally as "the giant's grave."...
Our most recent work is the Deerpark Court Tomb. The page includes the nearby early-medieval cashel.
