14 Oct Labbamolaga
Knockanevin, Co. Cork Just below the hill from the crumbling stone oratory are four standing stones, the remains of a stone circle. The oratory’s entrance, unique...
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14 Sep Beltany Stone Circle
Raphoe, Co. Donegal To add to the distinctiveness of this stone circle, a horrific-looking Iron Age stone head was found near the monument, perhaps indicating that...
13 Sep Dooncarton Stone Circle
Dooncarton, Co. Mayo There are seven stones remaining here on a ridgeline with a dramatic view over Broadhaven Bay. Caesar Otway described in 1850 how his...
12 Sep The Children of the Mermaid
Enniscrone, Co. Sligo The stones on this seaside bluff in Co. Sligo were not, in legend, people accused of any transgression. Rather, it was just a...
21 Aug Kealkil Stone Circles
Kealkil, Co. Cork The circle's tallest upright appears similar in proportion to the enigmatic black monolith from Stanley Kubrick's 1968 film 2001 A Space Odyssey. That...
03 Aug Stonehenge
Salisbury Plain, England No, Stonehenge is not in Ireland. But according to Geoffrey of Monmouth, Merlin the magician moved Stonehenge from Ireland to England as a...
03 May Athgreany Piper’s Stones
Hollywood, Co. Wicklow The green Wicklow Hills setting provides a serene background for this sad tale of merriment gone wrong, the piper and his dancers suddenly...
21 Apr Lough Gur
Bruff, Co. Limerick There is no other spot in Ireland so rich in the evidence of prehistoric habitation and ceremony, and also in the mythic traditions...
21 Apr Newgrange
Slane, Co Meath In 1699 the proprietor of the townland of New Grange needed stones for building. He dug into the scrub-covered mound on his land...
10 Mar Drombeg Stone Circle
Glandore, Co. Cork Drombeg presides over a view that gently swoops down to the Atlantic a mile distant. Its organically sculpted, honey-colored stones form a circle...