You do not have to travel very far in Ireland to stumble across ancient sites from various time periods in history. Ireland is dotted with these old structures that date from the Mesolithic Period ...

Ireland’s Ancient East is full of myths and legends ... “It's a place of the gods,” Mulligan says, pointing to structures older even than the Neolithic tomb at Newgrange in County Meath.

Genetic analysis of human remains within several of the tombs initially seemed to reinforce this. But our latest research has ...

Welcome to Ireland's Ancient East, a vast playground of incredible ... the most concentrated collection of ancient monuments in all of Europe (50 structures, to be exact) and one of the most ...

A new DNA study is challenging the long-standing myth that Ireland’s ancient passage tombs were reserved for elite burials. At Brú na Bóinne, a World Heritage site known for its vast stone monuments ...

and this St. Patrick’s Day will see many Irish people visiting the ancient holy wells of Saint Patrick. The collective holy wells of Ireland were said to cure anything from a headache to mental ...

In County Meath in eastern Ireland sits the world heritage site of Brú na Bóinne. The late 4th millennium BC megalithic tombs ...