A massive archaeological discovery in County Wicklow suggests that ancient Irish people lived in dense urban prehistoric ...

Archaeologists have discovered one of the largest settlements ever identified in Ireland's Baltinglass hillfort landscape.

Experts discovered a large settlement in Co Wicklow, which is believed to have been built 2,000 years before the Vikings came ...

Dr Dirk Brandherm and his colleagues have identified more than 600 suspected house platforms in the Brusselstown Ring.

Situated on the high Burren limestone plateau in County Clare, Poulnabrone Dolmen is one of Ireland’s most iconic archaeological monuments and is the second most visited location in the Burren after ...

Archaeological studies of a landscape in eastern Ireland have turned up the greatest number yet of ancient structures that remain rare in that country, and may cast light on the beliefs and burial ...

COUNTY KERRY, IRELAND—Traces of a 4,000-year-old tomb thought to have been destroyed in the nineteenth century have been found on southern Ireland’s Dingle Peninsula by folklorist Billy Mag Fhloinn, ...

Medieval legend claims that an Irish race called the Fir Bolg originated from Greece. What does evidence reveal about this ...

Newly displayed 1,300-year-old doodles suggest that medieval monastic life wasn’t all about solemn chants and holy scripture. Now on view at the National Museum of Ireland, Kildare Street, the ...

The National Museum of Ireland recently received a surprising anonymous donation. Now, it needs to figure out where the gift came from—and not just to send a thank-you card. Someone sending a box of ...

In 1987 a small team of people with an interest in the general field of archaeology published the first issue of Archaeology Ireland. It has been published every quarter since then. Archaeology ...