Site type guide
Monument
Monument sites reveal how different traditions shape sacred space through architecture, landscape, ritual, and memory.
59 monument sacred sites. Use the country and tradition filters to narrow in.
Atlas summary
Monument sacred sites overview
Monument sacred sites span countries, traditions, pilgrimage routes, and sacred landscapes represented in the Pilgrim Map atlas.
Use this guide to compare major country clusters, represented traditions, UNESCO-tagged places, and the map distribution before opening individual site pages.
| Coverage | 59 monument sacred sites across the current atlas. |
|---|---|
| Major countries | |
| Traditions |
Refine the atlas
Related monument guides
All sites
59
Showing 1-48 of 59 sites in this site-type guide
Adam and Eve Stones, Avebury
Beckhampton, England, United Kingdom
A mile from Avebury, two massive stones stand in a field that most visitors never reach....
Ale's Stones (Ales Stenar)
Ystads kommun, Skåne, Sweden
On a windswept ridge above the fishing village of Kaseberga, fifty-nine massive boulders form the outline of a ship sixty-seven metres long....
Annadorn Dolmen
Downpatrick, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Annadorn Dolmen stands in Northern Ireland as a major prehistoric site. At Annadorn Dolmen, Prehistoric ritual and funerary traditions provides the public sacred context....
Arbor Low
Monyash, England, United Kingdom
Arbor Low belongs among the significant prehistoric places of England. The sacred frame at Arbor Low comes from Prehistoric ritual and funerary traditions....
Bandelier National Monument
Sandoval County, New Mexico, United States
In a volcanic canyon carved by centuries of water and wind, the Ancestral Puebloans built homes into the soft tuff cliffs, dug kivas into the earth, and left petroglyphs...
Barclodiad y Gawres
Ty Croes, Wales, United Kingdom
Barclodiad y Gawres stands in Wales as a major prehistoric site. At Barclodiad y Gawres, Prehistoric ritual and funerary traditions provides the public sacred context....
Beaghmore
Cookstown, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Beaghmore belongs among the significant prehistoric places of Northern Ireland. The sacred frame at Beaghmore comes from Prehistoric ritual and funerary traditions....
Big Buddha of Phuket
Karon, Phuket, Thailand
Phuket's forty-five-metre white-marble Buddha, formally Phra Phuttha Ming Mongkol Akenakiri, is a modern island landmark and place of worship....
Boa Island figures
Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Boa Island figures belongs among the significant prehistoric places of Northern Ireland....
Brownshill Dolmen
Carlow, Carlow, Ireland
Brownshill Dolmen belongs among the significant prehistoric places of Republic of Ireland....
Brú na Bóinne
Drogheda, Meath, Ireland
Brú na Bóinne stands in Republic of Ireland as a major prehistoric site. At Brú na Bóinne, Prehistoric ritual and funerary traditions provides the public sacred context....
Bryn Celli Ddu
Llanddaniel Fab, Wales, United Kingdom
Bryn Celli Ddu is a nationally or regionally important prehistoric place in Wales. Bryn Celli Ddu is interpreted here through Prehistoric ritual and funerary traditions....
Cairnpapple Hill
Bathgate, Scotland, United Kingdom
Cairnpapple Hill is a nationally or regionally important prehistoric place in Scotland....
Christ Church Gate
Part of Canterbury Cathedral
Canterbury, England, United Kingdom
Christ Church Gate is the ceremonial entrance to Canterbury Cathedral precincts and the final threshold of the Pilgrim's Way from Winchester....
Dowth
County Meath, Meath, Ireland
Dowth is a nationally or regionally important prehistoric place in Republic of Ireland. Dowth is interpreted here through Prehistoric ritual and funerary traditions....
Dún Aonghasa
County Galway, County Galway, Ireland
Dún Aonghasa stands in Republic of Ireland as a major prehistoric site. At Dún Aonghasa, Prehistoric ritual and funerary traditions provides the public sacred context....
Dwarfie Stane (Dwarf's Stone)
Hoy, Scotland, United Kingdom
In a steep-sided valley on the island of Hoy, a massive block of red sandstone lies in desolate peatland....
Eflatunpınar
Konya, Turkey
Built by a Hittite Great King as a monument to divine water, Eflatunpınar has kept faith with its original purpose for thirty-two centuries: the spring still flows, the...
Fasıllar Monument
Konya, Turkey
On an open hillside near Beyşehir in Konya Province, an 8-meter basalt block carries the most ambitious Hittite religious sculpture ever attempted: the storm god...
Gate of the Moon
Part of Tiwanaku Archaeological Site
Tiwanaku, La Paz, Bolivia
At Tiwanaku on the Bolivian altiplano, a gateway carved from a single block of andesite stands as the lunar counterpart to the famous Gate of the Sun....
Grange stone circle
Lough Gur, County Limerick, Ireland
Grange stone circle is a nationally or regionally important prehistoric place in Republic of Ireland....
Haʻamonga ʻa Maui
Niutoua / Heketā, Tongatapu, Tongatapu, Tonga
A coral-limestone trilithon on Tongatapu's eastern coast, raised around 1200 AD as gateway to a vanished royal compound....
Hattusha Lion Gate
Part of Hattusha
Çorum, Turkey
The Lion Gate of Hattusa stands at the high southwestern point of a six-kilometre fortification wall surrounding what was once the Bronze Age world's largest capital — the...
Hill of Ward
County Meath, Meath, Ireland
Hill of Ward belongs among the significant prehistoric places of Republic of Ireland....
Khao Klang Nok
Si Thep, Phetchabun, Thailand
Khao Klang Nok is UNESCO property 1662's second component and the largest surviving Dvaravati monument....
Kilmartin Glen
Kilmartin, Scotland, United Kingdom
Kilmartin Glen belongs among the significant prehistoric places of Scotland. The sacred frame at Kilmartin Glen comes from Prehistoric ritual and funerary traditions....
Kit's Coty House
Aylesford, England, United Kingdom
Kit's Coty House is an Early Neolithic portal dolmen on a North Downs spur above the River Medway — three massive sarsen uprights and a capstone weighing several tonnes,...
Knowth
Drogheda, Meath, Ireland
Knowth belongs among the significant prehistoric places of Republic of Ireland. The sacred frame at Knowth comes from Prehistoric ritual and funerary traditions....
La Roche aux Fées
Essé, Ille-et-Vilaine, France
Five thousand years ago, Neolithic builders hauled forty-tonne stones four kilometers to construct the largest dolmen in France....
Labbacallee wedge tomb
Glanworth, County Cork, Ireland
Labbacallee wedge tomb is a nationally or regionally important prehistoric place in Republic of Ireland....
Legananny Dolmen
Castlewellan, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Legananny Dolmen is a nationally or regionally important prehistoric place in Northern Ireland....
Little Kit's Coty House
Aylesford, England, United Kingdom
Little Kit's Coty House — also called the Countless Stones — is the shattered remnant of a Neolithic chambered monument built around 4000 BCE on the North Downs above the...
Loanhead of Daviot stone circle
Daviot, Scotland, United Kingdom
Loanhead of Daviot stone circle stands in Scotland as a major prehistoric site. At loanhead daviot circle, Prehistoric ritual and funerary traditions provides the public...
Long Man of Wilmington
England, England, United Kingdom
Long Man of Wilmington stands in England as a major prehistoric site. At Long Man of Wilmington, Prehistoric ritual and funerary traditions provides the public sacred...
Maghera Church and Round Tower
Newcastle, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Maghera Church and Round Tower is a nationally or regionally important prehistoric place in Northern Ireland....
Maltaş
Afyonkarahisar, Turkey
For nearly a century, Maltaş was classified as a shaft monument of uncertain function....
Mên-an-Tol
Morvah, England, United Kingdom
On the West Penwith moor, three stones stand against the sky—but it is the middle stone that draws seekers from around the world....
Osireion
Part of Abydos
Abydos, Sohag, Egypt
The Osireion is an underground structure behind the Temple of Seti I at Abydos, built as a symbolic tomb for Osiris....
Pilgrims Rest Statue
Lenham, England, United Kingdom
Brother Percival is a life-sized wooden sculpture of a resting monk, installed in 2007 on the Pilgrim's Way between Harrietsham and Lenham in Kent....
Poulnabrone dolmen
County Clare, Clare, Ireland
Poulnabrone dolmen stands in Republic of Ireland as a major prehistoric site. At Poulnabrone dolmen, Prehistoric ritual and funerary traditions provides the public sacred...
Proleek Dolmen
Dundalk, Louth, Ireland
Proleek Dolmen is a nationally or regionally important prehistoric place in Republic of Ireland....
Pumdikot Shiva Statue, Pokhara
Pokhara, Gandaki Province, Nepal
At 1,500 meters above sea level, Nepal's second-tallest Shiva statue stands with blessing hand raised toward the Annapurna range....
Sanctuary of Christ the King
Almada, Setúbal, Portugal
Christ the King rises above the Tagus opposite Lisbon as Portugal's national monument of thanksgiving for surviving the Second World War untouched....
Silbury Hill
West Kennet, England, United Kingdom
Silbury Hill belongs among the significant prehistoric places of England. The sacred frame at Silbury Hill comes from Prehistoric ritual and funerary traditions....
St Lythans burial chamber
Wenvoe, Wales, United Kingdom
St Lythans burial chamber is a nationally or regionally important prehistoric place in Wales....
Thornborough Henges
West Tanfield, England, United Kingdom
Thornborough Henges is a nationally or regionally important prehistoric place in England....
Tinkinswood
Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom
Tinkinswood belongs among the significant prehistoric places of Wales. The sacred frame at Tinkinswood comes from Prehistoric ritual and funerary traditions....
Tomnaverie stone circle
Tarland, Scotland, United Kingdom
Tomnaverie stone circle is a nationally or regionally important prehistoric place in Scotland....
Showing 1-48 of 59 sites
Key questions
Monument sacred-site questions
- What monument sacred sites are included?
- Monument sacred sites are places where this site type carries religious, ritual, cultural, or pilgrimage significance. This guide lists 59 in the current Pilgrim Map atlas.
- Where are these monument sites located?
- Major country clusters include United Kingdom, Ireland, Thailand, Turkey, Bolivia, Egypt.
- Which traditions are represented?
- Traditions represented here include Prehistoric ritual and funerary traditions, Celtic and Prehistoric, Ancient, Christianity, Prehistoric, Thai Theravada Buddhism.
- Can I view monument sacred sites on a map?
- Yes. Compare the country and tradition clusters, switch to map view for geography, then use site pages for practical context and related places.