Walking into Ireland’s highest mountain Carrauntoohil in county Kerry
The relative inaccessibility of the uplands has ensured that archaeological features often survive where elsewhere they have been removed or destroyed by centuries of human activity. A stone alignment in the Connemara mountainsThe evidence for this comes from place-names, archaeology, literature, oral traditions and scientific investigations. The settled lifestyle afforded by farming from c. 4000 BC led to the development of religious beliefs, some of which centered on …READ MORE