July
28
/ 2020
Irish Neolithic sites, and Stone Age monuments are being destroyed by treasure hunters, vandals, and visitors. Some of the tombs date back 5000 years and are among the oldest of their kind in Europe. Now it is feared that Irish Neolithic sites and other ancient historic monuments that have endured for thousands of years may be wrecked by the curious and the misguided. County Sligo, in western Ireland, is famous for its stone age monuments. There have been 75 identified and they make up ‘almost one-third of the estimated 240 in the State, according to the Sligo Neolithic Landscapes Group’ reports the Irish Times. The vast majority of them date to the Neolithic period. Mysterious Irish Neolithic Sites and Monuments
