The ivy clad ruins of a fortified Church at Killelan, Co Kildare

'Bile': the Irish word for an ancient venerated tree, a sacred tree

Through a prehistoric portal...... Drombeg stone circle, Cork

Remembering 'BOB', who died on Christmas day 1750. This simple gravemarker is located in Kells, Co Meath.

An ogham stone at Ballinrannig, Dingle, Co. Kerry. Dating from the 5th century AD, its badly worn inscription reads "Conmac of Corb son of ..."

Lovely medieval grave-slab at St. Mary's church, New Ross, Co Wexford

An early medieval high cross at Ahenny, Co Tipperary. Standing at over 3m tall, it probably dates from 8th/9th century AD

This is a lecture I gave to the Ulster Archaeology Society earlier this year looking at undocumented burials around Belfast: such as coffins in estuarine mud, a cemetery below a cross roads, a lost plot for executed prisoners.
And Samuel L Jackson...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=MbFa...

Evidence for long-distance trade in the Irish Neolithic. These beautiful green jadeite axes from Donegal & Westmeath are c. 6000 years old. Studies have shown that the stone they are fashioned out of comes from a series of Neolithic quarries located high in the Italian alps