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...
Megalithic Tag
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...
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...
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...
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]."...
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...
25 Nov The Grianán of Aileach
Bus loads of schoolchildren drive up the winding road where the Grianán of Aileach dominates the summit. As the youngsters disperse to explore the fort...
22 Nov Dún An Óir
There is little left to see at Dún An Óir. The earthworks from the hastily-constructed 1580 fortification have been eroded by weather and waves. There...
20 Nov Binder’s Cove Souterrain
Binder's Cove souterrain may have been constructed as a place of refuge where its owners could escape when threatened, torches ablaze as they raced into...
17 Nov Aghade Holed Stone
(Cloghaphoill)
Niall of the Nine Hostages has been called the "Irish Genghis Khan" due to the number of his descendants. More than three million men around...
16 Nov Tullylin and Carns
Is it possible that there might be a connection between an ancient inauguration stone, a nearby fairy fort, and the apparition that appear to four...
12 Nov Castlestrange La Tène Stone
The glory of the Castlestrange Estate has long since turned to ruin. However one remnant of its opulence still remains: the prehistoric La Tène decorated...
11 Nov Tobernaveen Holed Stone
The use of this stone in folk remedies did not end at the beginning of the twentieth century. A woman living very close to the...
09 Nov Carrowkeel Passage Tombs
The Carrowkeel passage tombs are only 20 minutes from the rushing traffic of the N4. But they are a world apart: a transition from a...
30 Oct Rathcroghan Royal Site
Rathcroghan has both a geographic and a symbolic presence. It is an archaeological treasure trove, but it also is the venue of a queen-goddess with...
23 Oct Knockbrack Chambered Tomb
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...
20 Oct Minard Castle,
Ring Fort, and Holy Well
Anascaul, Co. Kerry The drama of the Anglo-Irish conflict, explosively played out here in 1650, was—more than 300 years later—the backdrop for the 1970 film Ryan’s...
16 Oct Knock Áine
Knockainey, Co. Limerick This sacred hill of the fairy queen Áine, who was known as both sun goddess and love goddess, was a ceremonial site long...
15 Oct Knocknafearbreaga Alignment
Knockanoura, Co. Clare These are, in legend, a band of robbers turned to stone. As Mary Harrison explains, there was something so powerful about these stones...
15 Oct The King’s Stables
Navan, Co. Armagh Not a natural feature such as a holy well, this artificial pool was dug out, and allowed to fill in with water, to...
15 Oct Lubitavish Court Tomb:
“Ossian’s Grave”
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...
15 Oct Killinagh Church
and Cursing Stone
Blacklion, Co. Cavan The ruins of the church at Killinagh, with its adjacent holy well and ruined prehistoric tomb, have long appeared to be a place...
15 Oct Doagh Holestone
Doagh, Co. Antrim A visitor to the Doagh Holestone might find the ground blanketed in flower petals, the remnants of a visit by newlyweds come to...
15 Oct Tigh Mhóire
Dún Chaoin (Dunquin), Co. Kerry Tigh Mhóire contains what may be a prehistoric tomb, a fragment of an early cross-slab, and the grave of a Spanish...
15 Oct Rosdoagh Court Tomb
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...
15 Oct Rathgall Hillfort
Tullow, Co. Wicklow The blarney recounted by nineteenth-century travel writers in Ireland has not gone out of style. In June of 1979 our informants delighted in...
15 Oct Poulnabrone Dolmen
The Burren, Co. Clare This exquisitely-proportioned monument sits just off a main tourist route, its spacious new parking area accommodating dozens of buses disgorging daily many...
