This was the period of the arrival of farming (cattle. sheep, wheat, barlay). Our greatest burial tombs with their swirling art and astronomical alignments were constructed during this era and are ranked amongst the finest structures in the world for their engineering skillfulness.
Monuments during this period – Passage Tombs, Court Tombs, Portal Tombs & Wedge Tombs.
The Ceide Fields, Ballycastle. County Mayo c.3000BC
emmet2023-06-24T15:56:39+00:00The oldest field system in the World In the 1930s, a local schoolmaster, Patrick Caulfield from Belderrig, noticed piles of symmetrical stones when he was cutting turf in the 1930s. It dawned on [...]