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The Passage Tomb Landscape of County Sligo

County Sligo possesses approximately one hundred intensely interconnected megalithic passage tomb sites and undisturbed cairns in often dramatic topographical environments. The Passage Tomb Landscape of County Sligo can be visualised as a northern coastal group of passage tombs centred on the Carrowmore complex and the Cúil Iorra peninsula, and a southern inland group in the Bricklieve...

Royal Sites of Ireland

From the eighth century BC, Emain Macha/Navan Fort, Dún Ailinne, the Rock of Cashel, and Rathcroghan, have been the traditional royal centres of the North, East, South, and West provinces, together with Tara, the seat of the High Kings, and the Hill of Uisneach, the symbolic central point of Ireland, forming a globally unique group of archaeological ceremonial complexes. They demonstrate in...

Transatlantic Cable Ensemble

Transatlantic Cable Ensemble is a transnational serial nomination comprising the shore-end termini of the world’s first permanent trans-oceanic submarine electric telegraph: the Eastern Terminus, Valentia Island, County Kerry, Ireland (two component parts) and the Western Terminus, Heart’s Content, Newfoundland, Canada (two component parts). From 1857 to 1865 various attempts were made to lay...
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