🇮🇪 Ireland · Megalith
Fourknocks Passage Tomb
Neolithic (c.3200–2800 BCE) · Boyne Valley Passage Tomb tradition
Meath passage tomb with wide cruciform chamber, timber-roofed instead of cairn, and profuse engraved art including anthropomorphs.
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🇮🇪 Ireland · Megalith
Neolithic (c.3200–2800 BCE) · Boyne Valley Passage Tomb tradition
Meath passage tomb with wide cruciform chamber, timber-roofed instead of cairn, and profuse engraved art including anthropomorphs.
🇮🇪 Ireland · Megalith
Neolithic (c.3200–2800 BCE) · Boyne Valley Passage Tomb tradition
Kilkenny dual-passage tomb with lavish megalithic art, aligned to both midwinter sunrise and sunset.
🇮🇪 Ireland · Megalith
Late Neolithic · Boyne / Loughcrew passage tradition
35 m Loughcrew chief tomb with cruciform chamber whose art is illuminated by equinox sunrise.
🇮🇪 Ireland · Megalith
Late Neolithic · Loughcrew-Carrowkeel passage tradition (Boyne variant)
14 hilltop passage cairns (10–21 m) on Bricklieve ridges above Lough Arrow, with cruciform chambers and light boxes.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Early to Late Neolithic · Morbihan Atlantic Neolithic
Three-phase promontory cairn (60 m) at Arzon with two superimposed passage graves and anthropomorphic art.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age · Irish Sea Passage Tomb tradition
Anglesey passage tomb with 8.4 m passage aligned to midsummer sunrise and decorated spiral stone.
🇮🇪 Ireland · Megalith
Neolithic · Irish Middle Neolithic (Boyne Valley)
Grand passage tomb in the Bend of the Boyne with 85 m diameter cairn, decorated kerbstones and cruciform chamber. Famous for winter solstice sunrise illuminating chamber through roof-box.
🇮🇪 Ireland · Megalith
Neolithic · Boyne Valley Neolithic
Largest passage tomb complex in Brú na Bóinne: Great Mound with two passages (east-west) and 18 satellite tombs.