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Eire (Republic of Ireland/Airlann) on The Modern Antiquarian, the UK & Ireland's most popular megalithic community website. 8 news items, 1 piece of folklore, 6 weblinks, plus information on many more ancient sites nearby and across the UK & Ireland.

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News

Newbuildings time team to excavate ancient Rath

Londonderry Sentinel
By Olga Bradshaw - 21st January 2009

MEMBERS of Newbuildings and District Archaeological and Historical Society are eagerly awaiting the results of a new survey scheduled to take place this week, to discover what lies beneath a rath which has been discovered in the village... continues...

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Posted by moss
22nd January 2009ce

Grassy mounds our earliest breweries, claim archaeologists

by Sarah Stack (Irish Examiner 11 August 2007)

'Bronze age Irish men were as fond of their beer as their 21st century counterparts, it was claimed yesterday.

Two Galway archaeologists have put forward a theory that one of the most common ancient monuments around Ireland may have been used for brewing ale... continues...

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Posted by gjrk
13th August 2007ce

Edited 30th September 2008ce

Ireland not ruled out as Atlantis by museum

Contrary to press reports in August, the National Museum of Ireland did not rule out that Ireland could have been Atlantis (Full text). The previous reports were apparently the result of quoting out of context.

There is a new website for the theory now, AtlantisInIreland.com, which includes a blog and an invitation to a real time debate.

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Posted by odysseus
11th December 2004ce

Edited 13th December 2004ce

Irish Times: Historic sites Bill likely to face legal challenge

Daniel McConnell

The Irish Times
17 June 2004

Opponents of newly-published legislation, which will give the Government power to proceed with road projects which interfere with national monuments after archaeological works are carried out, have threatened to challenge the legislation in the courts... continues...

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Posted by otuathail3
19th June 2004ce

Edited 22nd June 2004ce

Irish Independent: 'Ill-conceived' bill threatens heritage sites

Irish Independent
17.06.04

Save Tara!

IMPORTANT archaeological sites, including Ireland's oldest Viking settlement, will be threatened if the Government's proposed amendment to the National Monuments Bill is passed, heritage activists said yesterday... continues...

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Posted by otuathail3
19th June 2004ce

Edited 11th April 2006ce

Irish Examiner: Cullen 'failing to protect heritage sites'

Irish Examiner
17/06/04

By Jim Morahan

HERITAGE groups yesterday accused Environment Minister Martin Cullen of
failing to protect national monuments... continues...

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Posted by otuathail3
19th June 2004ce

Edited 22nd June 2004ce

Labour describes Monuments Bill as 'official vandalism'

TaraWatch

Irish Times
Marie O'Halloran
18.06.04

A Bill to allow for the completion of the M50 motorway at Carrickmines will legalise "official vandalism" of national monuments, the Labour Party's environment spokesman has claimed... continues...

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Posted by otuathail3
19th June 2004ce

Edited 11th April 2006ce

Monuments Bill 'legal vandalism' claims Labour

Monuments Bill 'legal vandalism' claims Labour

Irish Independent
18.06.04

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Posted by otuathail3
19th June 2004ce

Edited 11th April 2006ce

Folklore

The Fairy Music

THE evil influence of the fairy glance does not kill, but it throws the object into a death-like trance, in which the real body is carried off to some fairy mansion, while a log of wood, or some ugly, deformed creature is left in its place, clothed with the shadow of the stolen form.
Young women, remarkable for beauty, young men, and handsome children, are the chief victims of the fairy stroke. The girls are wedded to fairy chiefs, and the young men to fairy queens; and if the mortal children do not turn out well, they are sent back, and others carried off in their place.
It is sometimes possible, by the spells of a powerful fairy-man, to bring back a living being from Fairy-land. But they are never quite the same after. They have always a spirit-look, especially if they have listened to the fairy music. For the fairy music is soft and low and plaintive, with a fatal charm for mortal ears.

Ancient Legends, Mystic Charms, and Superstitions of Ireland By Lady Francesca Speranza Wilde

A huge collection of folklore and folk-magic from Oscar Wildes' mother.

View online at Google Books, Sacred-texts Com, or download this collection for your iPhone or iPod.

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Posted by Chance
19th July 2010ce

Links

Newgrange, Boyne Valley, Ireland

Newgrange with Knowth and Dowth are the major sites of the Boyne Valley World Heritage Site. Images and information on Newgrange itself with visitor and tour information.

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Posted by knowth
16th June 2010ce

A Road on the Long Ridge

A Road on the Long Ridge - In search of an Ancient Highway on the Eiscar Riada by Hermann Geissel.
This is a free pdf book based on the TG4 program about a journey on the Eiscar Riada or Sli Mor from Dublin to Galway.
It is a great read and he also proposes that Early Christain sites were constructed beside the road for access etc.
It could also be argued that perhaps some of these were based on early prehistoric sites and therefore sites were located near the road.
It also has a section on Croghan Hill and it mentions the alignment of the Hill of Uisneach - Croghan Hill on Winter Solstice Sunrise.

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Posted by bawn79
19th June 2007ce

Edited 19th June 2007ce

British Archaeology

Article from November/December 2005:

"Ireland's road network is experiencing an astonishing development, with sometimes controversial implications for the country's rich and largely unexplored rural heritage. Dàire O'Rourke, senior archaeologist at the National Roads Authority, says a new code means everyone will benefit."

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Posted by Rhiannon
3rd February 2006ce

Edited 3rd February 2006ce

Megalithic Ireland as the inspiration for Plato's Atlantis

News and discussion about the book Atlantis from a Geographer's Perspective: Mapping the Fairy Land, by Ulf Erlingsson. A short video presents some of the intriguing details from the book.

The author considers that Plato's Atlantis was a utopia, but shows that with a probability of over 99.98%, Plato based the description of Atlantis' geography on Ireland.

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Posted by odysseus
18th February 2005ce

Edited 19th February 2005ce

Mythical Ireland - new light on the ancient past

An exploration of Newgrange, Knowth, Dowth, Tara, Loughcrew and other ancient sites of Ireland in the context of art, astronomy, mythology and archaeology.

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Posted by mythicalireland
19th March 2004ce

Edited 29th September 2004ce

Mythical Ireland

Spirals, lozenges and concentric circles in one of the world's hubs of megalithic art. Knowth, Dowth, Newgrange and Fourknocks sun-lit in their full glory!

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Posted by Annexus Quam
9th March 2001ce

Edited 20th May 2005ce

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