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What Ireland’s Neolithic Tomb Maps Reveal About Its Ancient Past

What Ireland’s Neolithic Tomb Maps Reveal About...

What can a map reveal about Ireland’s ancient tombs? Anthony Murphy explores the regional patterns and overlaps between court tombs, passage tombs, dolmens and Linkardstown burials.

What Ireland’s Neolithic Tomb Maps Reveal About...

What can a map reveal about Ireland’s ancient tombs? Anthony Murphy explores the regional patterns and overlaps between court tombs, passage tombs, dolmens and Linkardstown burials.

Ballymacdermot Court Tomb – ancient chambers and fairy stories in County Armagh

Ballymacdermot Court Tomb – ancient chambers an...

By Anthony Murphy – Mythical Ireland At first glance, Ballymacdermot might look like a ruined stone enclosure on a mountainside. Look a little more closely, however, and a different story...

Ballymacdermot Court Tomb – ancient chambers an...

By Anthony Murphy – Mythical Ireland At first glance, Ballymacdermot might look like a ruined stone enclosure on a mountainside. Look a little more closely, however, and a different story...

Creevykeel Court Tomb, County Sligo, under a brooding sky

Creevykeel Court Tomb – a place of the ancestor...

Explore Creevykeel Court Tomb in County Sligo through its ancient stones, archaeology and later stories, with photographs and a short film by Anthony Murphy.

Creevykeel Court Tomb – a place of the ancestor...

Explore Creevykeel Court Tomb in County Sligo through its ancient stones, archaeology and later stories, with photographs and a short film by Anthony Murphy.

Before Newgrange: 6,000-Year-Old Neolithic Houses Discovered at Cappagh, County Waterford

Before Newgrange: 6,000-Year-Old Neolithic Hous...

Archaeologists working at Cappagh Quarry near Dungarvan in County Waterford have uncovered the remains of two Early Neolithic houses dating from approximately 3700–3600 BC. These buildings were erected several centuries...

Before Newgrange: 6,000-Year-Old Neolithic Hous...

Archaeologists working at Cappagh Quarry near Dungarvan in County Waterford have uncovered the remains of two Early Neolithic houses dating from approximately 3700–3600 BC. These buildings were erected several centuries...

What the latest Giant's Ring discovery really tells us

What the latest Giant's Ring discovery really t...

A remarkable new discovery beside Belfast's Giant's Ring has revealed a previously unknown 4,000-year-old stone circle. But its real significance goes far beyond archaeology. Anthony Murphy explores how the find...

What the latest Giant's Ring discovery really t...

A remarkable new discovery beside Belfast's Giant's Ring has revealed a previously unknown 4,000-year-old stone circle. But its real significance goes far beyond archaeology. Anthony Murphy explores how the find...

Traces of an ancient manmade landscape reappear in County Meath

Traces of an ancient manmade landscape reappear...

In 2019, satellite imagery from the great drought of 2018 revealed a hidden archaeological landscape at Curraghwalls, County Meath – a remarkable complex of ringforts, enclosures, field systems and ancient...

Traces of an ancient manmade landscape reappear...

In 2019, satellite imagery from the great drought of 2018 revealed a hidden archaeological landscape at Curraghwalls, County Meath – a remarkable complex of ringforts, enclosures, field systems and ancient...

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