Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hand out image from Queen’s University Belfast of 1. Photogrammetry map of location of roundhouse footprints at Brusselstown Ring.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A recently discovered large hilltop settlement could challenge the theory that the Vikings built the first towns in Ireland, a ...

In a recent study published in Antiquity, Dr. Dirk Brandherm and his colleagues identified more than 600 suspected house platforms in the Brusselstown Ring hillfort, making it the largest nucleated ...

Archaeologists have uncovered what could be the largest cluster of houses ever discovered in the entirety of prehistoric Britain and Ireland. Until now, the largest cluster of ancient settlements ...

Daniel Kirkpatrick is a history blogger and data analyst who maps Ireland’s ancient historical sites ...

Compelling evidence of a massive ancient structure has surfaced in Ireland, where archaeologists working in the country’s Baltinglass hillfort landscape have discovered one of the largest settlements ...

Researchers have uncovered evidence of a sprawling prehistoric complex in the hills of Wicklow that rivals the scale of early cities. This monumental find challenges the long held historical narrative ...

A hillfort in Co Wicklow has been declared the “largest nucleated settlement in prehistoric Ireland and Britain”. Researchers at Belfast’s Queen’s University also contend that the site, just south of ...

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