Chronology of some Irish Sites featured on Megalithic Ireland
The dates for the Prehistory sites are the generally accepted dates + or - 150, but these dates are often changed as our knowledge increases. The Swedish archaeologist Dr. Goran Burenhult excavated several sites at Carrowmore recently and a controversial date for tomb 4 of 5400 - 4600 BCE was recovered. Based on Burenhult's research and later excavations, most Irish archeologists believe that Carrowmore is an early site from around the time mesolithic hunter-gatherers were turning into neolithic farmers.
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Neolithic Period (Ireland c.4,000 - c.2000 BCE) |
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Carrowmore Megalithic Complex, Sligo. c.4300-3500 BCE |
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Poulnabrone Portal Tomb, County Clare c.3800-3400 BCE |
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| Knowth Passage Tomb, County Meath c.3500 BCE | |||
| Newgrange Passage Tomb, County Meath c.3100 BCE | |||
Great Pyramid, Giza c.2550 BCE |
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Stonehenge, England c.2400 BCE |
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| Bronze Age (Ireland c.2000 BCE -c.800 BCE ) | |||
Drumskinny Stone Circle, County Fermanagh. c.2000 BCE |
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Island Wedge Tomb, County Cork. c.1350 BCE |
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Drombeg Stone Circle, County Cork. c.790 BCE |
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Iron Age (Ireland c.800 BCE c. 400CE) |
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Parthenon, Greece 432 BCE |
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Turoe Cult Stone, County Galway. c. 300-200 BCE |
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Castlestrange Cult Stone, County Roscommon. c.200 BCE |
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| The Monastery, Petra, Jordan 100 BCE | |||
| Early Medieval ( Ireland c.500-1169 CE) | |||
| Early Christian (Ireland c.400CE-800 CE) | |||
Kilnasaggart Pillar Stone, County Armagh. c.715 CE |
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| Gallarus Stone Oratory, County Kerry c. 750 CE | |||
| Grianan of Aileach, Cashel, County Donegal c.750 CE | |||
| Viking Era (Ireland c.800-980CE) | |||
Castledermot Hogback, County Kildare c.950 CE |
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| Cormac's Chapel, Cashel, County Tipperary. c. 1134 CE | |||
| Timahoe Round Tower, County Laois c.1150 CE | |||
| Notre Dame, France 1160 CE | |||
| Medieval ( Ireland c.1169-c.1536 CE) | |||
Trim, Norman Castle, County Meath c.1176 CE |
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| Clonfert Romanesque Cathedral, Galway. c.1180 CE | |||
Hore Abbey, County Tipperary. c.1266 CE |
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| Machu Picchu, Peru 1400 CE | |||
St Mary's Abbey, Devenish Island, Fermanagh. c.1449 CE |
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Parke's Castle, County Leitrim c.1628 CE |
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