Archaeological Sites in Ireland
Necropolis/tombs complex in Ireland (16)
Audleystown Court Tomb
Neolithic dual court tomb near the southern shore of Strangford Lough in County Down, Northern Ireland, built c. 3900-3500 BC. It features a unique double courtyard-double burial…
Ballyedmonduff Wedge Tomb
Early Bronze Age wedge tomb (c. 2500-2000 BC) on the southeastern slope of Two Rock Mountain in Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown, Ireland, and a National Monument. Regarded as one of the…
Cohaw
Cohaw is a Neolithic dual court tomb located 4 km southeast of Cootehill, County Cavan, Ireland, known locally as the "Giant's Grave". The monument consists of two individual…
Coom Wedge Tomb
Coom Wedge Tomb is a prehistoric megalithic burial monument on the Iveragh Peninsula in County Kerry, Ireland, dating to approximately 4000-2500 BC at the Neolithic-Bronze Age…
Craigs Dolmen
Craigs Dolmen is a megalithic passage tomb in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, situated 5 miles (8 km) south of Ballymoney on the Long Mountain at 200 metres elevation. Located in…
Dowth
Dowth is a Neolithic passage tomb complex near the River Boyne in County Meath, dating to approximately 3200 BC. It forms part of the Brú na Bóinne World Heritage Site alongside…
Gartnanoul
A Neolithic dual court tomb in Killykeen Forest Park, County Cavan, Ireland, dating to approximately 4000-3500 BC. Called a dual-tomb because it has two tombs aligned with each…
Kilmashogue
A wedge tomb on the northern slopes of Kilmashogue Mountain at 213 m elevation in the Dublin Mountains, dating to c. 2500-2000 BC. The gallery features two chambers aligned…
Knockmany Passage Tomb
Knockmany Passage Tomb (Anya's Cove) is a Neolithic passage tomb on the summit of Knockmany Hill near Augher, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. Dating to 4500–3000 BC, its stones…
Knockroe Passage Tomb
Knockroe Passage Tomb is a Neolithic passage tomb in County Kilkenny, Ireland, about 10 km north of Carrick-on-Suir. The larger western chamber is aligned so that sunlight at…
Knowth
Knowth is a major Neolithic passage tomb in the Boyne Valley, County Meath, Ireland, constructed around 3200 BC. The Great Mound contains two independent passages along an…
Labbacallee Wedge Tomb
Labbacallee (Irish: Leaba Chailli, "hag's bed") is the largest wedge tomb in Ireland, located 8 km northwest of Fermoy in County Cork. Radiocarbon-dated to 2202-2138 BC, it…
Lisnadarragh Wedge Tomb
Lisnadarragh Wedge Tomb is a prehistoric burial site in County Monaghan, Ireland. One of approximately 400 wedge tombs in Ireland, it dates from the transition between the…
Loughcrew
Loughcrew is a Neolithic passage tomb cemetery near Oldcastle, County Meath, Ireland, dating to the 4th millennium BC. The tombs feature rare megalithic art and sit atop the…
Newgrange
Newgrange is a prehistoric passage tomb in County Meath, Ireland, situated on a rise overlooking the River Boyne, 8 km (5 mi) west of Drogheda. Constructed around 3100 BC during…
Townleyhall Passage Grave
Townleyhall Passage Grave, also known as Littlegrange, is a Neolithic chamber tomb built around 3000 BC, located 2 km north of Dowth in County Louth, Ireland. It forms part of the…
Stone circle in Ireland (12)
Aughlish
Bronze Age ritual complex in the Sperrin Mountains of County Londonderry, Northern Ireland, comprising at least six stone circles and two stone rows. The largest circle contains…
Ballynoe Stone Circle
A large late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age stone circle near Ballynoe, County Down, Northern Ireland, dating to around 3000 BC. The circle measures 35 m in diameter and comprises…
Beaghmore
Beaghmore is a complex of Early Bronze Age megalithic features, stone circles and cairns, located 8.5 miles (13.6 km) north west of Cookstown, County Tyrone in Northern Ireland,…
Beltany Stone Circle
Beltany Stone Circle is a Bronze Age stone circle in County Donegal, Ireland, dating to circa 2100–700 BC. Located south of Raphoe, it may have originated as a sacred Neolithic…
Bocan Stone Circle
Bocan Stone Circle is a Bronze Age monument on Bocan Hill near the village of Culdaff on the Inishowen peninsula in County Donegal, dating to approximately 1500-2500 BC. The…
Carrigagulla
Carrigagulla is a megalithic complex 2.9 km northeast of Ballinagree in County Cork, Ireland, set within an amphitheatre of foothills leading to the monument-rich Boggeragh…
Corick
Corick is a stone circle and alignment site in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. Located 400 metres south of the Corick clachan near a stream, the monument includes a stone…
Drumskinny
Drumskinny is a stone circle in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, discovered in 1934 and excavated in 1962. The monument, featuring an adjacent cairn and alignment, is a State…
Grange Stone Circle
Ireland's largest stone circle, built c. 2200 BC near Lough Gur in County Limerick. Comprising 113 contiguous standing stones in a ring 45 metres in diameter, sunken 1.2 metres…
Kealkill Stone Circle
Kealkill Stone Circle is a Bronze Age axial five-stone circle in County Cork, southwest Ireland. Excavated in 1938, the circle originally was thought to align north, atypical for…
Templebryan Stone Circle
Templebryan Stone Circle, also known as The Druid's Temple, is a recumbent stone circle near Clonakilty, County Cork, Ireland. Originally consisting of nine stones in a circle 9.5…
Uragh Stone Circle
Uragh Stone Circle is an axial five-stone circle near Gleninchaquin Park in County Kerry, Ireland. The Bronze Age site also includes a multiple stone circle and boulder burials.
Dolmen in Ireland (10)
Annadorn Dolmen
Annadorn Dolmen is a Neolithic dolmen (c. 4500-3000 BC) located at the Buck's Head near Loughinisland, in the townland of Annadorn, County Down, Northern Ireland. It stands on the…
Ballykeel Dolmen
Neolithic tripod portal tomb (c. 3500 BC) at the foot of Slieve Gullion in the Ring of Gullion, County Armagh, and a State Care Historic Monument. Known locally as the Hag's…
Ballylumford Dolmen
Portal tomb on the Islandmagee peninsula, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, situated in a private front garden near Ballylumford power station. Known locally as the Druid's Altar,…
Brownshill Dolmen
Brownshill Dolmen is a Neolithic portal tomb located 3 km east of Carlow in County Carlow, Ireland, built between 4000 and 3000 BC. Its granite capstone, measuring approximately…
Goward Dolmen
Goward Dolmen is a megalithic dolmen or cromlech in County Down, Northern Ireland, located two miles from Hilltown in the townland of Goward. The monument features a massive…
Kilmogue Portal Tomb
Ireland's tallest dolmen at 5 metres from base to capstone top, located on the eastern slopes of Brown Mountain in County Kilkenny. Also called Leac an Scail ("Rock of the Hero"),…
Knockmaree Dolmen
Knockmaree Dolmen (also called Knockmaree Cist or Knockmary) is a Neolithic burial monument in Phoenix Park, Dublin, Ireland, dating to approximately 3000-2500 BC. The tomb is a…
Legananny Dolmen
A Neolithic portal tomb on the slopes of Slieve Croob in County Down, Northern Ireland, approximately 4,500 years old. Its coffin-shaped capstone, over 3 meters long, is balanced…
Meehambee Dolmen
The Meehambee Dolmen is a Neolithic portal tomb dating to approximately 3500 BC, located in the townland of Mihanboy near Athlone, County Roscommon, Ireland. Six upright megaliths…
Poulnabrone Dolmen
Poulnabrone Dolmen is a Neolithic portal tomb in the Burren, County Clare, and the oldest dated megalithic monument in Ireland. Its massive capstone, 13 feet long, rests on two…
Megalithic stones in Ireland (10)
Ardgroom
A Bronze Age stone circle on the Beara peninsula in County Cork, formally named Canfea but commonly called Ardgroom. Built c. 1000-1500 BC, the circle comprises 11 stones, 9 still…
Beenalaght
Beenalaght, known locally as "An Seisear" (The Six), is an alignment of six standing stones on flat pasture near the village of Bweeng, County Cork, Ireland, 13.6 km southwest of…
Bohonagh Stone Circle
Bohonagh is a Bronze Age axial stone circle located east of Rosscarbery, County Cork, Ireland. Originally comprising 13 stones in a circle 9.1 metres in diameter, nine survive,…
Castlenalacht Stone Row
Castlenalacht Stone Row is an alignment of four tall free-standing stones on a hilltop in the townland of Castlenalacht, 6 km north of Bandon, County Cork, Ireland. Dating from…
Drombeg Stone Circle
Drombeg stone circle is a small axial stone circle located 2.4 km (1.5 mi) east of Glandore in County Cork, Ireland. Constructed during the Neolithic period between 4500 and 3000…
Eightercua Stone Row
Eightercua is a four-stone alignment megalithic tomb in County Kerry, Ireland, located 1.5 km south-south-east of Waterville. The tallest stone reaches 10 feet in height, with the…
Glantane East
Glantane East is a megalithic complex located 6.4 kilometres from Millstreet in County Cork, Ireland, situated in the Keel River valley on the northwest slopes of Musherabeg…
Kilclooney More
A Neolithic megalithic complex in County Donegal, Ireland, featuring two portal tombs built into a 26-metre-long trapezoidal mound, dating to c. 4000-3000 BC. The larger…
Lia Fáil
The Lia Fáil (Stone of Destiny) is a megalithic stone on the Hill of Tara's Inauguration Mound in County Meath, Ireland, used as the coronation seat for the King of Tara and High…
Riasc Monastic Settlement
Reask (also Riasc) is a ruined early monastic settlement situated 1 km east of Baile an Fheirtéaraigh in County Kerry, Ireland. The remains include low foundations of buildings,…
Cairn in Ireland (8)
Annaghmare Court Tomb
A Neolithic court tomb near Crossmaglen in County Armagh, Northern Ireland, also known as The Black Castle. Excavated in 1963-64 by Queen's University Belfast, it is considered…
Ballymacaldrack Court Tomb
Dooey's Cairn, also known as Ballymacaldrack Court Tomb, is a Neolithic burial monument near Dunloy, County Antrim, Northern Ireland. Named after Andrew Dooey, the landowner, the…
Cloghanmore
Cloghanmore (meaning 'the great stone heap') is a megalithic court tomb in Malin More, Glencolmcille, County Donegal, one of the twelve largest and most complex Irish court…
Dooey's Cairn
(4500 – 3000 BC) Dooey's Cairn, also known as Ballymacaldrack Court Tomb, is a Neolithic burial monument near Dunloy, County Antrim, Northern Ireland. Approximately 400 court…
Knocknarea
4500–3000 BC: Knocknarea is a 327m hill in County Sligo, Ireland, crowned by one of Ireland's largest Neolithic cairns, Queen Maeve's Cairn, believed to contain an unexcavated…
Listoghil
Listoghil is the central monument of the Carrowmore megalithic cemetery in County Sligo, Ireland, constructed around 3500 BC. Designated Carrowmore 51, it is 34 metres in diameter…
Moylehid
Moylehid is a townland in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, in the civil parish of Boho, containing two scheduled historic monuments: the Eagle's Knoll Cairn passage tomb and…
Tibradden Mountain
A prehistoric burial cairn crowning the 467-metre summit of Tibradden Mountain in County Dublin. Possibly Neolithic in origin but reused during the Bronze Age, the cairn features…
Megalithic structures in Ireland (3)
Carrowmore
Carrowmore is a large group of megalithic monuments on the Coolera Peninsula to the west of Sligo, Ireland, built in the 4th millennium BC during the Neolithic. There are 30…
Knocknakilla
Knocknakilla is a megalithic complex on the north-west upper slopes of Musherabeg mountain in County Cork, Ireland, dating to approximately 3500 years ago. The site occupies a…
Magh Slécht
Magh Slécht ("plain of prostrations") is a historic plain in the parish of Templeport, County Cavan, Ireland, renowned as the site of Crom Cruach, the chief idol of pre-Christian…
Rock relief/carving in Ireland (2)
Boa Island
Boa Island, in Lower Lough Erne, County Fermanagh, is home to two enigmatic carved stone figures in the Caldragh graveyard, dating to the Iron Age. The larger bilateral (Janus)…
Castlestrange Stone
The Castlestrange Stone is an Iron Age granite boulder (90 cm long, 60 cm high) located near Athleague in County Roscommon, Ireland. Dating to c. 400 BC - 100 AD, it is decorated…
Cemetery in Ireland (1)
City/town/settlement in Ireland (1)
Fortress/citadel in Ireland (1)
Henge in Ireland (1)
Mine/quarry in Ireland (1)
Other sites in Ireland (2)
Carnfree
Carnfree is a multi-period archaeological complex south of Tulsk in County Roscommon, located near the royal site of Rathcroghan. The principal feature is a mound dating to…
Turoe Stone
The Turoe Stone is a 1.2-metre tall granite stone decorated in La Tène Celtic art, located in Bullaun, County Galway, Ireland, 6 km north of Loughrea off the R350 road. It dates…
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