The sites on which the remains of Ireland’s many medieval strongholds can be seen today, are often built on the ... times. The workmen uncovered and broke open a large flat stone. On detaching a portion, they found a grave and human skeleton beneath. ...
Eibhlin O'Neill - Jul 31 2021 - 8:31pm
... undertaken at Dean Street in the Coombe area of Dublin, Ireland's capital city. The dig is being undertaken ahead of the construction ... (Irish: Baile Átha Cliath) is located on the east coast of Ireland, at the mouth of the River Liffey (An Life) and bordered on the South ...
Eibhlin O'Neill - Mar 23 2018 - 12:43pm
... and 2 km (1.2 mi) south-east of Glanworth, County Cork, Ireland (Irish: Gleannúir, Contae Chorcaí, Éire). This is the largest Irish ... found upright in the large main chamber. Fragments of a late Stone Age decorated pot was also found during the excavation. These type of ...
Anonymous (not verified) - May 12 2021 - 9:18pm
... group. She lived in a cleit, a primitive hut made from dry stone walls with stone roof slabs capped with turf. Lady Grange was thought to have been moved ...
Douglas MacQueen - May 11 2016 - 9:10pm - 0 comments
... to be a predictor of the future and to have used an Adder stone, a stone with a hole in the middle, to see his visions of the future. He is said ...
Douglas MacQueen - May 10 2018 - 12:15pm
... the glen on the left side of the river there is a wishing stone where you place your hands on the stone and make a wish. Always finish your wish with a thank you to the glen ...
Alastair Kneale - Sep 9 2015 - 2:36pm
... around the coasts of Brittany, Cornwall, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. On some of these islands relative isolation over many centuries ... breed which is a group of sheep breeds from Scandinavia, Ireland and British Isles. Thought to be the first sheep brought to Europe in ...
Douglas MacQueen - May 18 2014 - 6:39pm - 0 comments
... The Screaming Orphans, the four Diver sisters who hail from Ireland’s County Donegal, have been performing together since the early ... return to the States on May 26, 2016 to perform at the “Ireland 100: Celebrating a Century of Irish Arts and Culture”, a major ...
Emmett McIntyre - Jul 1 2016 - 2:58am - 0 comments
... Language affairs. The new Taoiseach (Prime Minister of Ireland), Leo Varadkar, who was born in Dublin to a mother from Waterford and a ... community organisation that promotes the Irish language in Ireland and abroad. The League’s primary objective is the reinstatement of ...
Emmett McIntyre - Jun 18 2017 - 9:13pm
... The campaign's success has now secured shipment of the stone for cutting before transfer to Manx Memorials for specific work on the ... which will be used to provide an appropriate memorial stone as a fitting conclusion of his life. The trustees will need to raise ...
Valerie Caine - Feb 21 2017 - 11:21am