The latest tranche of records from the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland (VRTI) has 175,000 new documents lost in a fire at ...

The location of Carrowmore megalithic cemetery is on the Knocknarae peninsula in county Sligo, Ireland. Carrowmore is one of the 4 major passage tomb cemeteries in Ireland, the other 3 being Loughcrew ...

New Irish-led research casts doubts over suggestions that an incestuous social elite ruled over the ancient people of Ireland 5500 years ago.

Reports of Neolithic Irish god-kings, descended through an incest-practicing social elite, are lacking in evidence, say a ...

The weekend is looking to be a mixture of cloudy with outbreaks of rain, but there is sunny spells forecast for the coming days also.

In 2020, analysis of a skull fragment discovered at Newgrange, County Meath, led to sensational claims of royal incest within the region’s prehistoric ruling dynasties. But new research suggests that ...

A closer look at the burial of a man born of incest 5,000 years ago reveals he was unlikely to have been a god-king.

The archaeological team found no evidence supporting the existence of hereditary power or shared ancestry at the site ...

A new study challenges the idea that the so-called "king" buried at Newgrange was part of a royal dynasty in Ireland.

Stone Age Ireland was likely not ruled over by incestuous “god-kings” 5500 years ago, as previously thought, a team of ...

Discover more about Newgrange and the people who were buried there. And what those people can tell us about the elites of ...

In 2020, archaeologists in Ireland first announced a startling find at Newgrange, a giant Neolithic burial chamber 30 miles ...