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...
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30 Nov The Giant’s Causeway
Portballintrae, Co. Antrim In legend, these 40,000 interlocking blocks of stone were the first segment of a roadway stretching across the sea to Scotland. It was...
28 Nov The Black Pig’s Dyke
Kiltyclogher, Co. Leitrim Because some of its segments correspond roughly to the modern border between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, the Black Pig’s Dyke...
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 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...
18 Aug St. Patrick’s Chair and Well
Cullamore, Co. Tyrone Altadaven Glen, the light-dappled dreamscape location of St. Patrick’s Chair and Well, seems like a small patch of fern-filled rain forest magically dropped...
04 May Ballynahatty Giant’s Ring
Ballynahatty, Co. Down Unique in the country for its central stone tomb, this monument is the largest enclosed ceremonial space in Ireland. The top of the...
03 May Tara Fort
Portaferry, Co. Down Tara Fort sits on a prominent hilltop southeast of Portaferry, on Northern Ireland’s Ards Peninsula. Thomas McKeating claimed that "these fairies were supposed...