Dec 12, 2025
See here for more stories from Ireland’s Forgotten Past The 103-Ton Dolmen Just outside the town of Carlow stands a work of immense human ingenuity and antiquity. Known as the Browne’s Hill Dolmen, this burial tomb comprises of a handful of hefty, sculpted boulders...
Sep 17, 2025
Tracing the earliest evidence of humans in Ireland, focusing on Palaeolithic and Mesolithic discoveries, including butchered bear and reindeer bones—highlighting survival skills, diet, tools, settlements, and cultural practices before the Neolithic arrival transformed...
Sep 13, 2025
The Black Pig’s Dyke is an ancient Irish earthwork composed of banks, ditches, and timber palisades, stretching across several counties. While once believed to serve as a defensive frontier for Ulster, new research suggests ritual or symbolic purposes were more...
Sep 11, 2025
The monastery at Ardmore is attributed to Saint Declan, a member of the Déisi, who is credited with converting his tribe to the Christian faith several decades before St Patrick’s mission began proselyting in 431 AD. Become a member of Turtle’s History Library to...
Sep 5, 2025
The Céide Fields reveal the world of Ireland’s earliest Neolithic farmers, who used porcellanite tools to clear land, built stone-walled fields, and grew emmer wheat and barley on the Atlantic coast 5000 years ago. Become a member of Turtle’s History Library to access...
