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Celtic and Prehistoric sacred sites in Ireland
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Blarney Stone
Cork, County Cork, Ireland
At the top of a fifteenth-century castle tower in County Cork, visitors lie on their back, lean over the edge of the parapet, and kiss the underside of a limestone block....
Carrowkeel
County Sligo, Sligo, Ireland
On the Bricklieve Mountains in County Sligo, fourteen cairns built over five thousand years ago crown the ridgeline like stone sentinels....
Carrowmore
County Sligo, Sligo, Ireland
On the Coolera Peninsula near Sligo, thirty surviving megalithic monuments mark what was once a cemetery of sixty structures, among the oldest in Ireland....
Drombeg Stone Circle, Glandore, Ireland
County Cork, County Cork, Ireland
On a gentle rise above the West Cork coast, seventeen stones form one of the finest examples of Ireland's distinctive Cork-Kerry axial stone circles....
Hill of Tara
County Meath, Meath, Ireland
For over five thousand years, the Hill of Tara has stood as the axis mundi of Ireland, the place where earthly power touched the divine....
Hill of Uisnech
Loughnavalley, Westmeath, Ireland
On a gentle hill in the heart of the Irish midlands, five provinces once met at a massive limestone boulder....
Kenmare Stone Circle, Kenmare, Ireland
Kenmare, Kerry, Ireland
Fifteen stones form an egg-shaped ring in the heart of Kenmare town, enclosing a massive boulder-burial with a seven-ton capstone....
Kilclooney Dolmen, Ardara, Ireland
County Donegal, Donegal, Ireland
On a working farm near Ardara in County Donegal, two Neolithic portal tombs stand within sight of each other, the larger crowned by a massive capstone that has balanced on...
Knocknarea megalthic site, Sligo, Ireland
County Sligo, Sligo, Ireland
Knocknarea is a flat-topped mountain on the Sligo coast crowned by one of Ireland's largest unexcavated Neolithic cairns, traditionally identified as the burial place of...
Knockroe passage mound, Ireland
County Kilkenny, Kilkenny, Ireland
Knockroe is the only known passage tomb in Europe designed to capture both sunrise and sunset on the winter solstice....
Loughcrew
County Meath, Meath, Ireland
Loughcrew is one of Europe's largest concentrations of Neolithic passage tombs, spread across four hilltops named for the Cailleach, the divine hag of Irish mythology....
Newgrange
Donore, Meath, Ireland
Five thousand years ago, people moved thirty-five hundred tons of stone to build a monument aligned with a single moment of sunrise on the shortest day of the year....
Rathcroghan
Tulsk, Roscommon, Ireland
Rathcroghan was the sacred heart of Connacht for over 5,500 years. This ancient royal site, spread across the Roscommon plains, contains more than 240 monuments including...
Stone Of Destiny
Part of Hill of Tara
Navan, Meath, Ireland
The Lia Fail stands on the Hill of Tara, a granite pillar that legend says once roared to recognize the rightful High King of Ireland....
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