Spanning over 5000 years….....
According to the National Monuments service, there are approximately 45,000 field monuments including ringforts in Ireland. Many people drive by them everyday unaware of their existence. But these structures were the homes of the ancient Gaelic Irish well before the Viking and Anglo Norman invasions. Mostly wattle and daub, they were pretty basic and an insight into the lives of our predecessors on this island

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The outstanding beauty of this area, the intoxicating remoteness, the serene sense of calm belies the stark fact that these remnants of past lives, these portals into the past.
John Walsh