Earthworks in Ireland

Earthworks in Ireland · Mysteria

🇮🇪 Ireland · Earthwork

Iron Age, Late La Tene 148 BCE · Late Iron Age La Tene Ireland

147 BCE Iron Age oak plank highway (3.2 m wide, 1.6 km) across Corlea Bog, largest European timber road built in one year.

🇮🇪 Ireland · Archaeological wonder

Late Bronze Age (Roscommon horizon) · Irish dryland-bog community

Late Bronze Age oak plank boardwalk (82 m, 1.4 m wide) across fen–raised bog transition at Monaghan.

🇮🇪 Ireland · Archaeological wonder

Neolithic to Iron Age consecutive · North Tipperary bog-edge farmers

North lobe extension of Derryville megacluster: 3 tracks (2450–220 BCE) plus wattle panel type-specimen.

🇮🇪 Ireland · Ancient village

Neolithic to Early Bronze Age (2750–2280 BCE) · Irish Neolithic–Early Bronze (Beaker transition, 2500 BCE)

700-m stacked bog road (2750 BCE brush under 2280 BCE oak plank) — only Neolithic→Bronze stacked reuse in Ireland.

🇮🇪 Ireland · Ancient village

Iron Age (Late Iron Age, La Tène D, 148 BCE) · Irish Iron Age (La Tène, Uisnech kingship)

Iron Age 1-km oak causeway (148 BCE) — Keenagh's in situ twin to Corlea 1, part of 5-trackway Shannon bog field.

🇮🇪 Ireland · Ancient village

Early Medieval (Early Christian Ireland) · Early Medieval Irish (Uí Briúin)

850-m early medieval alder causeway and 12 x 8 m platform (680–800 CE) — bog-edge iron working.

🇮🇪 Ireland · Ancient village

Late Iron Age (La Tène) · Irish Iron Age (Ulster–Connacht)

1.5-km Iron Age oak plank causeway (120 BCE) — Edercloon's wheeled transport togher.

🇮🇪 Ireland · Earthwork

Neolithic to Early Medieval (c.3400 BCE–1200 CE) · Neolithic → Iron Age La Tène → Early Medieval Gaelic

Ireland's paramount ceremonial landscape (142 ha) — Neolithic tomb, Lia Fáil kingship stone and Iron Age royal enclosure complex.

🇮🇪 Ireland · Earthwork

Iron Age to Early Medieval (c.1000 BCE–1100 CE) · Iron Age Gaelic → Early Medieval Uí Néill

Donegal hilltop royal cashel (23.5 m diameter) on Greenan Mountain — northern Uí Néill kingship inauguration fort.

🇮🇪 Ireland · Earthwork

Late Bronze Age to Early Medieval (c.1100 BCE–800 CE) · Atlantic Iron Age / Early Medieval Gaelic

Cliff-edge triple stone fort on Inishmore (6 ha) with massive chevaux-de-frise of jagged limestone — Ireland's most dramatic hillfort.

🇮🇪 Ireland · Earthwork

Early Medieval (8th–14th century CE) over Late Neolithic traces · Gaelic Early Medieval (Eoghanacht / Dalcassian)

Triple-walled Burren cashel on cliff spur above Carran — Early Medieval high-status ringfort with 13 house platforms.

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