The site in the Wicklow mountains is also Ireland’s earliest proto-town according to Queen’s University Belfast researchers.

A hillfort in Co Wicklow has been declared the "largest nucleated settlement in prehistoric Ireland and Britain". Researchers ...

New research suggests a Wicklow hillfort complex functioned as Ireland’s earliest proto-town, revealing unprecedented ...

It is thought to be two millennia older than the Viking towns that were previously believed to be the earliest urban ...

Archaeologists in Ireland have identified what they describe as the largest clustered prehistoric village ever found in Britain and Ireland, a hilltop community whose scale and planning overturn ...

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The settlement enclosed by two circular rings held approximately 600 houses within the Baltinglass hillfort cluster, which ...

The Baltinglass hillfort cluster, sometimes referred to as "Ireland's Hillfort Capital," has long fascinated archaeologists with its exceptional concentration of prehistoric monuments. According to ...