Monuments in Ireland

Commemorating the end of independent Gaelic Ireland.

An ancient chamber filled with wonderful rock art and a Neolithic carving of a human face.

These imposing walls and towers look more like the ruins of a fortress than a monastery.

A tribute to the incredible generosity the Choctaw Nation showed the Irish people during the Great Famine.

This beautiful site is where the first transatlantic telegraph was sent from.

A strange egg in a mucky bog of western Ireland marks the spot of an aviation milestone.

A gated cross stands on the site where an Irish revolutionary met his end.

This European portal tomb has a capstone that weighs around 150 tons.

On the Irish coast, 18 members of the Howard family are eternally resting in an Egyptian pyramid.

This burial pyramid in central Ireland is thousands of miles and thousands of years away from its Egyptian inspiration.

This courtly monument celebrates an influential comedian who turned taking the piss out of the powers-that-be into an art.

One of the most popular megalithic sites in Ireland stands as a humbler version of Stonehenge.

Huge standing stones mark a site of megalithic mystery.

Ancient Bronze Age rampart that was used into the middle ages.

This small Irish village suffered the greatest loss of life when the Titanic sank.