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The Giant's Causeway (Irish: Clochán an Aifir) [1] is an area of approximately 40,000 interlocking basalt columns, the result of an ancient volcanic fissure eruption. [3] [4] It is located in County Antrim on the north coast of Northern Ireland, about three miles (4.8 km) northeast of the town of Bushmills.
Gold models of ship and cauldron, torc, from the Broighter Hoard. The list of hoards in Ireland comprises the significant archaeological hoards of coins, jewellery, metal objects, scrap metal and other valuable items that have been discovered on the island of Ireland (Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland).
Her body was found on a beach in County Louth, Republic of Ireland, in 2003; in October 2014 a man was arrested in connection with her murder, [12] and two further men were arrested in December 2014. [13] Peter Wilson, 21, a native of West Belfast, with five siblings, was described as "a vulnerable man with learning difficulties". [14]
Of the 1,760-square-mile (4,550 km 2) catchment area, around 9% lies in the Republic of Ireland and 91% in Northern Ireland; [9] altogether 43% of the land area of Northern Ireland is drained into the lough, [10] which itself flows out northwards to the sea via the River Bann. As one of its sources is the Upper Bann, the Lough can itself be ...
This was a hoard found in what became Northern Ireland after Irish independence. Northern Ireland had seen its many important finds of antiquities passing to first London and then Dublin, and the Ulster Museum was only recognized as a national museum for antiquities in 1961.
Bregagh Road in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, is famously known as the Dark Hedges, thanks to its enchanting row of beech trees planted in the 18th century by the Stuart family.
Model of a Mount Sandel Hut. The Mount Sandel Mesolithic site is in Coleraine, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland, just to the east of the Iron Age Mount Sandel Fort. [1] It is one of the oldest archaeological sites in Ireland with carbon dating indicating an age of 9,000 years old (7,000BC). [2]
Ireland called in help from England and France as repair crews worked to restore power to hundreds of thousands of people after the most disruptive storm for years. More than 1 million people in ...