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The Céide Fields

Near Ballycastle, County Mayo

Stone Age farms buried beneath a bog for 5,000 years.

In the 1930s a local teacher, Patrick Caulfield, noticed stones under the bog while cutting turf. His son later showed they were walls of a huge Stone Age farming landscape, with fields, houses and tombs, preserved under the peat.

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When
About 3700 BC
Where
54.3050, -9.4500
Group
Bigfoot & Hominids

Visiting

A visitor centre stands on the clifftop. Open in season.

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