Prehistoric Ireland
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The prehistory of Ireland has been pieced together from archaeological evidence, which has grown at an increasing rate over recent decades. It begins with the first evidence of permanent human residen
Newgrange, Ireland's largest Neolithic passage tomb, c. 3200 BC. One of the Boyne valley tombs.
Bronze Age gold dress-fasteners and torc, amber necklace, Ulster Museum
Reconstruction of a hunter-gatherer hut and canoe, Irish National Heritage Park
The Moss-side hoard of Mesolithic Bann flake tools and blades, Ulster Museum
Dún Aonghasa
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Dún Aonghasa is the best-known of several prehistoric hill forts on the Aran Islands of County Galway, Ireland. It lies on Inis Mór, at the edge of a 100-metre-high cliff.
Prehistoric Ireland
…relief decoration influenced by classical style, and other gold jewellery probably imported from the Roman world, perhaps as far away as Alexandria. Dún Aonghasa hillfort, walls c. 500 BC The headland of Drumanagh, near Dublin and not yet fully excavated, may have represented a centre for trade with Roman Britain…
Dun Aonghasa
Interior of Dún Eochla
A view over the karst landscape on Inis Mór from Dún Aonghasa
Cheval de frise on the west side of Dún Aonghasa