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Archaeological & historic sites in Ireland

Ireland has 134 archaeological & historic sites on Detourmap — ancient ruins, tombs, ghost towns, shipwrecks, catacombs, mines, battlefields and crash sites. The best known is Newgrange. All of them are below.

Archaeological
134
Oldest
Brú na Bóinne 3499 BC
Little known
123 of 134
Most from
13th century

Questions about this page

How many archaeological & historic sites are there in Ireland?

134 on this map, out of 14,002 worldwide. That is what Wikidata records for Ireland with coordinates, a photograph and a Wikipedia article — the real number on the ground is larger, and for some countries much larger.

What is the best known of the archaeological & historic sites in Ireland?

Newgrange. Neolithic monument in County Meath, Ireland.

Which is the oldest?

Brú na Bóinne, dated to 3499 BC. 22 of these 134 carry a founding date, 3 of them from before the year 1000.

Where does this information come from?

Every place is drawn from Wikidata (CC0), with photographs from Wikimedia Commons and a link to its English Wikipedia article. Selection is deterministic: a place is here because Wikidata files it under one of the classes this atlas carries and it has coordinates, a photo and an article. Nothing is written or chosen by an AI, and the ranking is simply how many Wikipedia language editions cover a place.

Archaeological & historic sites elsewhere

United Kingdom1,708 United States1,519 Italy1,110 France997 Spain916 Greece506 Japan505 Germany462 Czech Republic455 Turkey394 Egypt263 Russia219

All 14,002 archaeological & historic sites worldwide →

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